Books like From Christendom to Apostolic Mission: Pastoral Strategies for an Apostolic Age

The Church today is not the Church of even twenty-five years ago. Vatican II was meant to help the Church engage a modern world. Instead, we mostly kept doing what we have always done. Christendom has ended. We are in a new apostolic era, and we must engage this new era is a new way, leaning on the eternal, unchanging, and yet ever new Gospel of Jesus Christ. This text clearly articulated what I have known instinctively for years. All those in Catholic leadership, from parents and teachers to bishops and priests, should read it. We don’t need updated teachings. We need apostles.