A Bad Catholic's Essays on What's Wrong With the World

The youngest honoree of FOCUS’s 2014 30 Catholic intellectuals under 30, Marc Barnes recently graduated from the Franciscan University of Steubenville. His writing has been featured in First Things, Medium, America magazine and his personal blog BadCatholic.

Looking around at the messy state of our culture, most of us are inclined to think, “wow, the world really needs Jesus.” Fewer of us are inclined to look at that mess and think, “wow, maybe I need Jesus.” In A Bad Catholic’s Essays on What’s Wrong With The World, Marc Barnes takes an inventory of the state of society—and more importantly, the state of his own soul—and makes a genuine case that maybe the Church continues to give answers to the problems that ail us all because there’s a decent chance those answers might be the right ones."

—Matt Swaim
Communications Coordinator, The Coming Home Network International, author of Prayer in the Digital Age

Although I don’t always agree with the author’s views, Marc Barnes’s writing is always interesting. A Bad Catholic’s Essays on What’s Wrong With The World offers a collection of engaging thought, creative writing, and personal reflection on one Catholic’s attempt to make sense of his faith and his world. Whether you are provoked to dispute or affirmed in your views, this book is worth a read.

What Marc Barnes brings to us with A Bad Catholic’s Essays on What’s Wrong With The World is not just smart words and deep thoughts (though he assuredly brings both), but rather an approach to life that is delightful, unexpected, and true. His essays unpack the important while not forgetting the smiles and laughter that should always accompany them. This collection is a refreshing voice of reason in the midst of a world of turmoil.