Suggestions on quick reads for ex-Catholics

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Hi friends,

Here’s the reason for my thread: my Catholic manager at work has stopped attending Sunday Mass and has been going to a non-denominational church lately. She’s now calling this church “my new church” though she and her Catholic husband will occasionally go to Mass because her husband wants to stick with Catholicism at least for now. She and I chatted about all this a few days ago and I left off with her that “I would work on her” to which she laughed.

One way to make good on that evangelizing is to get her a Christmas “gift” in the form of a short book. I don’t think she adequately received a good education in the faith and I want something that will pull at her heart strings so to speak to return to the Church and allow her to at least reexamine her Catholic faith or get to know it better before she leaves it.

I’ve thought of the book by Tom Peterson “Catholics Come Home.” I hear it’s a short read, is right to point and isn’t a heavy boring read. I need to order something today or tomorrow so I can give it to her by the end of next week. Anybody ever read this book? Thoughts on it? If not this book, another good one to give a fallen away Catholic?

Thank you!
 
Unfortunately, I’ve never read Catholics Come Home so I can’t comment on it.

However, I have read Matthew Kelly’s Rediscover Catholicism and I highly recommend it. It played a big role in strengthening my faith.
 
I have not read Catholics Come Home.

Short easy reads that helped me come back home to Rome:

Rome Sweet Rome by Kimberly Hahn

Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor by Allen R. Hunt

No Price Too High: A Pentecostal Preacher Becomes Catholic by Alex Jones.

I highly reccomend this one along with one of the previous mentioned books, it is more like a pamphlet. It is Gus Lloyd’s “A Minute in the Church”. It is short concise Catechism book and she’s more likely to read this because it is short.
 
Thanks Journey,

Is Gus Lloyd’s “Minute in Church” more intended for Catholics who are defending the Faith or is it written for former Catholics who may be open to returning to the Church?
 
I feel compelled to say that while your intentions are admirable. I always encourage people to be very cautious about “encouraging” someone they work with in matters of faith. If you know this person very well and spend time outside of work, use your best judgement to proceed but if they are mostly a co worker and most of your time spent with this person is during work I would be very very cautious in bring up faith matters.
 
Let her be. Anything you do along these lines will be seen as manipulative.
 
Why exactly? She initiated all this when she freely told me she’s no longer Catholic and then gave me some CD’s of sermons by her pastor, which I graciously took and listened to. Is it a one-way street that I can’t return her the favor? Why would I be “manipulating” her?
 
So the last two people here have suggested I shouldn’t give any book/reading to a co-worker who’s no longer practicing the Catholic faith. Anyone else agree? I guess…why shouldn’t I give something to them if they’ve already given me CDs of sermons from their newly found sect?
 
Yes, you should reciprocate. We are called to evangelize, and that is exactly what you’re doing.
 
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