Posted on PopeStNickV Yahoo Group today

I bought this book for Number Two to read for 4th quarter Apologetics. We met Fr. John personally when we lived in NJ, he was a friend of many homeschool families. Fr. John is a joyful, generous, wonderful person and responsible for the conversion of so many famous names! Watch for an upcoming review on Love2Learn.

Good News, Bad News: Evangelization, Conversion, and The Crisis of Faith
by Fr. C. John McCloskey and Russell Shaw
Ignatius Press; 134 pages, paperback

From the publisher:

Fr. John McCloskey has become a famous “convert maker” in the powerful corridors close to the White House. Having run the Catholic Information Center in the heart of Washington, DC from 1998 to 2004, McCloskey had direct contact with numerous well-known and lesser-known Washington figures. Among well-known Catholic converts instructed by Fr. McCloskey are Senator Sam Brownback, publisher Alfred Regnery, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, journalist Robert Novak and many others. This work is a joint effort of McCloskey and Russell Shaw, the widely read Catholic author, speaker, and former communications director for the U.S. bishops. Drawing on moving, firsthand accounts of conversions, this book combines personal testimony, solid theology, and effective methods of communicating the Catholic Faith.

Mr. Shaw and Fr. McCloskey have written a book about repentance, recovery, conversion, and joy. I recommend it because I have experienced it through Jesus, my Savior.

—Lawrence Kudlow, Host CNBC's "Kudlow & Company"

Through their friendship and their family life, Catholics converted the Roman Empire, on person at a time. This book shows you how it was done-and how it's still done today. It's a book that can change the world all over again.

—Scott Hahn, author Rome Sweet Home

Fr. C. John McCloskey is one of the foremost apostles of the new evangelization in the United States. Catholics looking to bring converts into the fold should pay close attention to this wise and engaging book.

—W. Bradford Wilcox, author of Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands

Readers are guaranteed to find this book highly intelligent, unabashedly orthodox, and splendidly readable. The team of "Fr. C. John" and Russell Shaw would be very difficult to beat.

—Thomas Howard, author of The Night is Far Spent