Prodigal Pilgrim: Letters to Pope Francis from Lourdes, Fatima, Garabandal and Medjugorje
- Penny Abbruzzese’s Medjugorje: My Lifelong Journey with Our Lady, Queen of Peace.
- Barbara Lorenzo’s Miracle Mission at Medjugorje.
- Forrest Yanke’s The Call to Prayer.
Prodigal Pilgrim: Letters to Pope Francis from Lourdes, Fatima, Garabandal and Medjugorje
by Peter Breen
TESTIMONIALS
“In Prodigal Pilgrim, Peter Breen focuses on the environmental crisis. He points to Pope Benedict’s thought (referenced by Pope Francis) that divine intervention will be necessary to eliminate this crisis. Breen, in a series of letters to Francis, uses Benedict’s statement to draw the fascinating conclusion that this intervention has occurred through the messages given at Lourdes, Fatima, Garabandal, and Medjugorie.” – Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson, Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Holy Apostles College & Seminary, author of Survivor: A Memoir of Forgiveness
“Prodigal Pilgrim rewards the reader with an engaging conflict; the tug of unbelief on the one side and faith-engendered devotion on the other. Some may see Prodigal Pilgrim as a transliteration of Charles E Curran’s Loyal Dissent. In the book’s introduction itself, Peter Breen confesses to being a practicing Catholic with a crisis of faith in the Church, stemming from reasons that go beyond the sex scandals of the clergy. Through this trellised confessional Breen makes an impassioned plea for the Pope to recognize the miracles of Medjugorje. He takes the Pope and the reader with him on his pilgrimage to the sites of Our Lady’s appearances: Lourdes, Fatima, Garabandal and Medjugorje, encouraging a devotion to Mary as the prophet of our time. Mary, the mother of Jesus is presented as the one offering the world a lifeline. The epistolary form in which the author expresses his mix of faith and dissent is in itself unusual. There could well be smiles and frowns on what some may consider to be the cheek of the author to write a series of personal letters to Holy Father Pope Francis, addressed as Fr. Jorge Bergoglio; letters starting with Dear Fr. Jorge, as if to a parish assistant. It makes for engaging reading; an invitation to believe in the face of intellectual bumps. It offers the dissenting yet loyal Catholic a berth in what we may call, after Breen, the Prodigal Pilgrimage.” – Ivan Arthur, author of Saynt Lachmi and Pavement Prayers
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Breen is an Australian writer and the author of several books including the bestselling The Book of Letters published by Allen & Unwin. In his new book Prodigal Pilgrim, Peter returns to letter writing in a book of correspondence to Pope Francis about the Church in the modern world and private Marian revelation.
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