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Ignatius Press
U.K.
Family Publications
ISBN: 9780898707328
Published by Ignatius Press, 1999
Length: 400 pages
Edition: Paperback
Code: PROD-P
Your Price: $16.95
In this memorable book, seventeen women of the Baby Boom generation tell their poignant personal
stories of apostasy and repentance. Each left the Catholic Church to seek autonomy and fulfillment on the major
cultural battlegrounds of this era. Each eventually turned homeward to find, like her prodigal brother in the best-loved
of Christ's parables, that her Heavenly Father had been calling her throughout her absence, watching and yearning
for her return.
Feminists in the bureaucratic networks of Catholic dissent continually predict that women will
abandon the Church en masse unless they are soon admitted to the hierarchy. The women who recount their experiences
in this timely and important book prove the dissenters wrong. They are representative of a growing stream of "reverts"
who have recognized and repented of their errors when they rediscovered the living heart of Christ at the center
of the Church.
Today, when virtually all faithful Catholics wait and pray for the return of some family member or friend who has
strayed from the Church, these accounts of faith reborn offer hope and direction to lift the heart of every reader.
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Reviews
"A terrific group of stories. A must not only for younger people who have lost faith in
their childhood Catholic Faith, but also for older Catholics to understand the reasoning both behind the defection
of the young and also their intense yearning to find their way back. Thank you Donna Steichen for this gem."
—Ronda Chervin, Ph.D.
"This book radiates the joy of the resurrection and is a clarion call addressed to those
who are still struggling in the dark tunnel of faithlessness. It should be warmly welcomed."
— Alice von Hildebrand
Author, By Love Refined
"In Ungodly Rage, Donna Steichen vividly
recounted the faithlessness of many of God's daughters and revealed their profligate wasting of our spiritual inheritance.
In Prodigal Daughters she movingly discloses, through the stories
of those who have had the courage to return home, God's faithfulness to His daughters and His gifts of grace which
moved them back into the Church they had forsaken."
— Laura Berquist
Author, The Harp amd Laurel Wreath
Donna Steichen, author of the best-selling book Ungodly Rage: The Hidden Face of Catholic
Feminism, is a Catholic journalist and former teacher.
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Book Review Cuf
Book Review - The National Catholic Register
Why seventeen lapsed Catholic women returned
to the Church through society's maze of error
The Prodigal
Daughter By Mercedes W. Gutierrez
Section Contents Copyright © Donna Steichen 2008
Version: 17th February 2008
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