To Change the Church

“Erudite and thought-provoking….weaves a gripping account of Vatican politics into a broader history of Catholic intellectual life to explain the civil war within the church….Douthat manages in a slim volume what most doorstop-size, more academic church histories fail to achieve: He brings alive the Catholic ‘thread that runs backward through time and culture, linking the experiences of believers across two thousand years.’ He helps us see that Christians have wrestled repeatedly with the same questions over the past two millennia.”-The Washington Post “High-minded cultural criticism, concise, rhetorically agile, lit up by Douthat’s love for the Roman Catholic Church….an adroit, perceptive, gripping account….It’s strong stuff, conversationally lively and expressive.”-The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing.”-Booklist “A powerfully prophetic work whose sobriety and fairness magnifies the force of its warning. Pope Francis is leading a theological revolution whose recklessness beggars belief, and the effects of which stand to be more epochal than most Catholics realize. Ross Douthat reads the signs of these anxious times with acute clarity and far-seeing vision. To Change the Church is must reading for every Christian who cares about the fate of the West and the future of global Christianity.”-Rod Dreher, author of The Benedict Option

Ross Douthat is a columnist for the New York Times op-ed page. He is the author of To Change the Church, Bad Religion, and Privilege, and coauthor of Grand New Party. Before joining the New York Times, he was a senior editor for the Atlantic. He is the film critic for National Review, and he cohosts the New York Times’s weekly op-ed podcast, The Argument. He lives in New Haven with his wife and three children.

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