The Shock of Holiness with Michael Pakaluk
April 4, 2026
In Michael Pakaluk’s The Shock of Holiness, moms at Mass are heroes—not unlike the soldiers who landed at Iwo Jima. Children open us up to radical charity—the kind lived by martyrs. Obscure priests in backwoods France can change the world—not by debating, but by loving God. And a little bottle of holy water—available for free at any Catholic church—proves that the most precious things in life have no price. These are just a few of the extraordinary everyday insights from a philosopher who attests that Christian sanctity is much nearer and far more beautiful than we think and that the truths of the Catholic faith are simultaneously simple and profound. Our thanks to Ignatius Press and Publicist Brian O’Neel.
