Why Bad Things Happen to Good Catholics: And Other Mysteries of God's Love and Providence - Explained!

Why you should keep trusting in God
even when it all seems to go wrong

Here are straightforward and faithfully Catholic answers to questions that have vexed souls and troubled believers for centuries- if God is all good, why does He allow evil? Why do even those who devote their lives to pleasing Him meet with setbacks and disasters?

How to see GodÔÇÖs loving Hand in everything youÔÇÖre going through

Why Bad Things Happen to Good Catholics will banish from your mind forever the temptation to think that events unfold according to blind chance ÔÇö or even that evil ultimately triumphs in this world. The author, Fr. Henri Morice, helps you see the bad things that happen to you in the glorious light of GodÔÇÖs loving Providence. He dispels some of the mystery surrounding human suffering to reveal how God draws goodness ÔÇö for your own soul and for the souls of others ÔÇö out of even the worst tragedies you suffer. YouÔÇÖll discover here how to recognize GodÔÇÖs love working in all the events of your life, day by day, moment by moment.

Fr. Morice also helps you recognize how (believe it or not) God actually needs you in His plan for the world, and how He speaks to you daily in subtle ways. He instructs you in how you should respond to GodÔÇÖs call in your daily life, and how trust in GodÔÇÖs Providence will bring you peace more lasting than any worldly satisfaction.

This remarkable guide even shows you how to set aside ÔÇö forever! ÔÇö worry about the future, how to deal with misfortune, and how to develop full and lasting confidence in God. Why Bad Things Happen to Good Catholics will charge you with renewed gratitude for the God who loves you more than you have ever imagined!

ÔÇ£With so much suffering and pain in our world, it is a consolation to have Fr. MoriceÔÇÖs concise and erudite explanation of GodÔÇÖs love and providence available to us.ÔÇØ

Edward Cardinal Egan,
Archbishop of New York

ÔÇ£A precious book. It helps us to see and feel how much God really loves us.ÔÇØ

Fr. Ronald D. Lawler, O.F.M. Cap.,
Coauthor, The Teaching of Christ

ÔÇ£Offers the hint of an explanation ÔÇö and sometimes a good deal more ÔÇö for this most poignant of all mysteries.ÔÇØ

Russell Shaw,
Author, Does Suffering Make Sense?

ÔÇ£By kindling our faith in GodÔÇÖs mysterious Providence, the book gives us the encouragement we need in the midst of lifeÔÇÖs difficulties and in the face of suffering. It reminds us of ChristÔÇÖs promise of peace as it invites us to respond to Him with trusting faith and courageous love.ÔÇØ

Most Reverend John J. Myers, Archbishop of Newark

Your trust in the Lord will increase
as you learn-

• Why God is never nearer to you
  than when He seems farthest away
  

• GodÔÇÖs blessings- why you may not have noticed some of His greatest gifts to you
  

• How God uses even trifles and
  incidental events to transform lives
  

• The Church- why she is spiritually strongest when she appears to be weakest in the eyes of the non-believing world
  

• The hard but effective method that God uses to reveal your faults to you
  and lead you to correct them
  

• How GodÔÇÖs unseen interventions
  determine your lifeÔÇÖs course more than your own most strenuous efforts
  

• Your eternal destiny- why itÔÇÖs best
  that you not know it during this life
  

• What you must do to find the
  special vocation God intends for you
  

• St. Th├®r├¿se of Lisieux- how she
  preserved her Faith in the midst of a
  terrible trial ÔÇö and how you can, too
  

• Suffering- six ways God uses it in your life today ÔÇö to make you a saint!
  

• Temptations- how even they can help you draw near to God and become holier
  

• Surprising means God uses to lead souls to the purposes He has assigned to them
  

• How you can be sure that your
  prayers are always answered ÔÇö but
  not always in the ways that you expect
  

• Angels- yes, theyÔÇÖre active today!
  How God sends them to you to keep you from dangers and to bring you His graces
  

• Your sense of GodÔÇÖs peace- how it can coexist with suffering and grow deeper even in the worst times of crisis
  

• How you can become attentive to all the manifestations of GodÔÇÖs will
  

• The secret instrument God often uses in order to teach, comfort, and guide you
  

• And much more to help you sing
  a hymn of thanks even in trials, as you rejoice in GodÔÇÖs unfailing love!