"Father McTeigue aims to persuade us charmingly and succeeds in doing so. He uses reason to exorcise the forked tongue of deceit, banishing the sophistry of the serpent with the wisdom of the saint. What's more, he does so delightfully and with a great sense of humor. Seldom has a book by a philosopher been so enjoyable to read."
— Joseph Pearce, Author, Faith of Our Fathers and The Quest for Shakespeare
"Father McTeigue shows the qualities that make him an outstanding radio host: an ability to explore difficult subjects in a simple, engaging style. His meditations on 'the trauma and farce of the twenty-first century' and 'a fatally compromised Christendom' are very serious business, but his conversational style makes the book an enjoyable experience."
— Philip Lawler, Editor, Diogenes Unveiled: A Paul Mankowski, S.J., Collection
"In these deeply personal and precisely expressed meditations, Father McTeigue leads us along a pilgrimage of hope. Without Christ, man attains little of lasting worth—no Bach, no Dante, no Michelangelo. But Christ calls, and McTeigue repeats the call, begging us to consider how much we have lost, to recover what we have squandered or forgotten, and to be on the way once again—to Calvary, and the risen Christ."
— Anthony Esolen, Professor of Humanities, Magdalen College; Author, Sex and the Unreal City
"Wise, erudite, personal, and penetrating meditations—written during the waking nightmare of 2020 and 2021—on what we must erect in place of the lie, and how to do it. If teaching is, as his mentor often said, 'the sound of an honest man thinking out loud', then listen to this most honest thinker share his heartbreak, his wise counsels of resistance and restoration, and his hope for a new 'wiser and holier' Christendom after this Gethsemane."
— Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski, Author, Modernity as Apocalypse: Sacred Nihilism and the Counterfeits of Logos
"Father McTeigue describes and analyses the pathologies of modernity from which, to his alarm, the Catholic Church is far from immune. The decrease in civility, the willful throwing over of academic standards, the indifference to beauty in favor of comfort, speed, and sensation, and the tyranny of the present moment are the reasons for his profound discomfort. He does not despair, however. Where there is evil, there is the possibility of the good."
— Theodore Dalrymple, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute; Author, Our Culture, What's Left of It
