Strangers in a Strange Land

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

Henry Holt and Co., 2017
288 pages, hardcover $26

Philadelphia’s archbishop offers a vivid critique of American life today and a guide to how Christians — and particularly Catholics — can live their faith vigorously, and even with hope, in a post-Christian public square.

Subtitled Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World, the book is a fresh, urgent and ultimately hopeful treatise on the state of Christianity in the USA. America today is different in kind, not just in degree, from the past. The reasons include the decline of traditional religious belief, profound new patterns in sexual behavior and identity, and the decline of a sustaining sense of family and community.

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