A Crisis of Saints
Subtitle: The Call to Heroic Faith in an Unheroic World
By: George William Rutler ; with foreword by George Weigel.
Publisher: Crossroad Pub. Co.; Crossroad
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780824525255
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Apologetic works; Heroic virtue; Christianity and culture
Description: The essays that comprise this collection offer a penetrating examination of the spiritual condition of 21st-century society and the modern Catholic Church. In a witty but soundly reasoned manner, the moral weakness that epitomizes the contemporary era is berated. Examples from the lives of figures from early and recent church history serve as parables for current cultural crises, and the voices of frustrated parishioners around the world give these situations immediacy. Each chapter vividly demonstrates that the moral dangers of post-Vatican II life are often disguised as mere alternatives rather than threats to the soul. This proposal offers an authentically Catholic way of responding to these ethical challenges and exhorts the faithful to move beyond romanticism about Vatican II and strive for lives of virtue that respond to the Church’s call for effective evangelization.
Notes: Originally published: San Francisco :  Ignatius Press,  c1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by George Weigel; title: Preface; title: Catholic truth; title: From invention to reality; title: Gospel faith; title: From understanding to knowing; title: God our Father; title: From knowing to being known; title: Rome; title: From universalism to the church universal; title: Sacred liturgy; title: From reform to renewal; title: Catholic writing; title: Medium and message.