The Gentle Traditionalist

Geoffrey has a problem. All his life he's lived according to sensible sceptical secular values. Then his true love left him for a New Age community in Scotland. But it gets worse: now she wants to be a traditional Catholic nun! Geoffrey is bewildered angry lost. Until one Valentine's Day in Ireland he meets a mysterious guide--the Gentle Traditionalist. Together they commence a most unusual dialogue of ideas concerning:<p>• The Heart of the Gospel • The Real Nature of the Church: A Supernatural Mystery • The Crisis in Catholicism today: the Loss of Tradition • The New Age Movement • Catholic Ireland • Why Secularism gets away with murder<p>Both whimsical and serious the dialogue in this book offers a probing exploration of the Catholic Mystery Christendom and the crisis of the West today. Join us for a very special Valentine's Day when Geoffrey's barren rational world gets turned upside down...<p>This is one of the most unusual books I've ever read ... written throughout with passion and engagement with a touching and deep-seated love for Ireland.--MARY KENNY author of Goodbye to Catholic Ireland<p>As brilliant a guide for the perplexed as this age is capable of producing.--CHARLES COULOMBE author of Everyman Today Call Rome<p>The Gentle Traditionalist is a book with a 'strange magic' like unto the Ireland it loves and mourns. With unforgettable images and a wry sense of humor Roger Buck unfolds a tale of whimsical fantasy melancholy realism and supernatural joy.--PETER KWASNIEWSKI Wyoming Catholic College; author of Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis<p>Writing with great wisdom insight and a most warm sense of humor Roger Buck offers us a contemplation of the religious predicaments of our time in the spirit of Chesterton and Belloc. He takes on everything in a charming (and disarming) manner ... a wonderful book.--MICHAEL MARTIN author of The Submerged Reality<p>To read this work was a joy and I thank the author for helping me realize that despite the passing of three generations and 150 years in the Irish-Australian diaspora my heart is still Irish.--GERARD O'SHEA University of Notre Dame Australia; author of As I Have Loved You<p>This striking novel by Roger Buck set in Ireland is composed with extraordinary sensitivity and insight.--COLIN MAWBY KSG Choral Director of Radio Telefis Eireann (RTÉ)<p>An unusual book: part love story part theological dialog. Roger Buck is that altogether too rare Catholic who understands the importance of the geo-cultural forces that have shaped the modern world.--THOMAS STORCK author of From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond<p>The Gentle Traditionalist is a tremendous book: moving and humorous opening up the most profound issues engaging the most strident of polemics with the lightest touch.--JOSEPH SHAW President of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales<p>ROGER BUCK is a Catholic convert who once resided at Findhorn Scotland-probably the most renowned New Age community in the world. He is also the author of Cor Jesu Sacratissimum (forthcoming from Angelico Press) and a traditional Catholic website of the same name. He is very happily married and lives in the rural northwest of Ireland.