Pope John Paul II, Edmund Walsh, and Father “Nails” Herliby get it. The “pro-choicers” at Georgetown University don’t. Frank Sheed, G.K. Chesterton, and Sister Stephanie get it. The sex-ed teachers at Georgetown Prep don’t, and neither does Andrew Sullivan.

“A compelling account of a young man’s rediscovery of Catholicism, this story is at times poignant, bitter, and angry as it moves, step by inexorable step, toward the author’s surrender to the mystery of love that is Christ in his Church. After decades of flawed and failed “renewals,” another generation is embarking on the high adventure of truth ever ancient, ever new.”