{"product_id":"surprised-by-life-patrick-madrid-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\n\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\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLeticia A., a victim of sexual abuse, \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\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\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\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, Father Ryan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\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\n\u003cli\u003ePlus others, who came into the Church after being \"surprised by life.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Madrid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1622823737\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781622823734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sophia Institute Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Patrick Madrid","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989403369727,"sku":"9781622823734","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d877f93-7132-40df-a0b1-0cab82c2f560.jpg?v=1683299296","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/surprised-by-life-patrick-madrid-9781622823734","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}