The book is only 100 pages and divided into five chapters. The first one hooks your interest. Barron explains that the scandals that have gripped the church for the past thirty years have to be the work of Satan. It's so diabolically clever! I agree and have thought so for a long time.
The second chapter shows that bad popes, bad clerics, bad behavior, have been with us ever since Judas kissed Christ and Peter denied Him.
The third chapter is more of the church's ugly history.
Barron says the fourth chapter is the most important. Maybe. I don't know it was over my head. This is the chapter that explains why Catholics should stay and fight. It probably says we should stay because of the Eucharist. I know that's why I stay.
"The Way Forward," the last chapter, is full of hope. We owe it to the victims of the scandal, to those priests falsely accused, and to our children. The Catholic Church is too wonderful, the fulfillment of Jesus' promises, to not stay and fight for it.
Remember Jesus winds in the end.
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