3. Similar Books

[John]

3. Borrowing a question Manuel posed for us recently: We have read in the club the following books on a similar subject:
a) Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society by John Horvat Solution: family-based guilds
b) The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation by Rod Dreher Solution: all of us should become Benedictine
c) The Restoration of Christian Culture, by John Senior. Solution: go back to the 19th century
d) Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World, by Charles J. Chaput. Solution: living a Christian life
e) Christus Vincit: Christ's Triumph Over the Darkness of the Age, by Athanasius Schneider. Solution: go back to before the 2nd Vatican Council
f) The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity, by Daniel J. Mahoney. Solution: Reject humanism
g) Beheading Hydra: A Radical Plan for Christians in an Atheistic Age, by Dwight Longenecker. Solution: Avoid isms.

How do these books compare with this one?

[Manuel]

There is an important difference. Most of the books in the list offer a man-devised way to fight the harmful ideology of this world. This book, however, offers a way that has been proposed by the Virgin Mary herself in Fatima and other-where: pray the rosary, practise the five first Saturdays, trust Mary and let her drive you to Christ.

You don't have to leave the world, go to live in the wilderness, or retire to a small community. You can go on living where and how you were living, except for praying more, behaving like a Catholic Christian and making up a strong relationship with Christ.