Summary: A series of lectures on the state of the Catholic Church that was later turned into a book.
Over the past several months I have been reading about Catholicism (see below for other reviews). Many of the book have been written by Evangelicals that have converted to Catholicism. I chose several of them precisely because I knew that they would write with language that I as an Evangelical would mostly understand.
But it is time to start reading more widely and I want to start reading more books written by Catholics to other Catholics. I picked this audiobook up on a whim from Audible because I had a couple dollars of promotional credit and it was on sale.
It is not actually a book. It is a series of lectures that was later turned into a book. It is not new either. The lectures were given in 1985 during lent. It sounds like they were given in a church basement to a small group of people that are concerned about their church (although the audio of Rohr is very clear). On the whole this does not feel all that dated. There are a few things that let you know that these are almost 30 years old. But most of the issues are probably pretty similar.
What I always find most encouraging is that many of the poor assumptions about Catholics that Evangelicals have disappear quickly when you actually listen to people like Rohr. This is a man that is in love with Christ, that wants to see the world evangelized that is charitable in his opinions of other Christians and has a real heart for the church. He opens each lecture with a prayer, prayers that would be very comfortable and familiar to Evangelicals.
