{"product_id":"9781622823734","title":"Surprised by Life: 10 Converts Explain How Catholic Teachings on Life Led Them to the Church","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere you’ll read the eye-opening, often heartrending life stories of ten people who struggled with some of the most difficult issues human beings face – and who, as they struggled – were drawn out of pain and darkness by the beauty of Catholic teachings about life, marriage, and human sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDramatic and thought-provoking, these intensely personal stories address virtually every controversial issue surrounding life, including in vitro fertilization, abortion, contraception, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGathered by popular Catholic apologist Patrick Madrid, they turn on its head the oft-heard charge that Catholics embrace the Church’s teachings on life only “because they are Catholics.” These good folks show the opposite: they are Catholics because of the Church’s pro-life teachings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn these pages you’ll meet, among others:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAnneMarie S., one of San Francisco’s highest paid call girls,\u003c\/b\u003e made pro-life – and then Catholic – by a Catholic radio talk show.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLeticia A., the sexually-abused Texas Baptist teenager,\u003c\/b\u003e whose life of wild promiscuity was brought abruptly to an end by her need for true marriage, which she found only in the Church.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHeather S., the pregnant teenager\u003c\/b\u003e whose soul was awakened to the Faith by ten pro-life words from Pope John Paul II.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJewels G., the post-abortion pro-abortion crusader,\u003c\/b\u003e whose failed suicide left her alive long enough to meet good Catholic women who explained the Church’s teachings, turned her pro-life, and won her to the Faith.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLeila M., the contracepting, pro-sterilization wife\u003c\/b\u003e whose views were overthrown by the stark contrast between Planned Parenthood and the sweet memory of the wise pro-life teachings of her college ethics teacher, good Father Ryan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eChris A., the sexually profligate Jewish lawyer,\u003c\/b\u003e who too late came to see the evil of the abortions he enabled, and now works as a Catholic apologist seeking to end this American holocaust.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePlus others,\u003c\/b\u003e who came into the Church after being “Surprised by Life.”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Sophia Institute Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061330428144,"sku":"9781622823734","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781622823734_p0.jpg?v=1763859620","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781622823734","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}