Why Be Catholic. Understanding Our Experience and Tradition

In this candid and wide-ranging work, Richard Rohr and Joseph Martos confront the tensions many Catholics feel about their faith, identity and belonging, wrestling honestly with both the brilliance and the shadow of the Catholic tradition. Moving through the strengths of Catholicism - its sacramental imagination, universal vision, communal depth and call to social transformation - while also acknowledging its institutional failures and blind spots, the authors refuse both nostalgia and easy dismissal.
Instead, they argue that Catholicism is a living tradition to inhabit and reform from within. At its heart, this book is an invitation to rediscover the wisdom of the tradition, to take personal responsibility for faith and to embrace the demanding, transformative call to holiness that has shaped Catholic saints across the centuries.