{"id":4931,"date":"2006-10-30T08:33:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T08:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/an-unusual-reader-bleg.html"},"modified":"2006-10-30T08:33:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T08:33:05","slug":"an-unusual-reader-bleg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/an-unusual-reader-bleg.html","title":{"rendered":"An unusual reader bleg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">This reader&#8217;s uncle is a lapsed Catholic, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer that has progressed to a very serious point:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m putting together my own card and &quot;care package&quot;, and I am wondering if there are any suggestions for a Catholic book that might be good for a man in his situation, a lapsed Catholic who has maybe two or three months to live (barring a miracle &#8211; my friend did just go to Lourdes and prayed for him there!). Obviously, I doubt he would read anything that is either too deep or too long &#8211; there&#8217;s something to be said for those &quot;quick stories of hope&quot; books. But there must be some book out there that someone has written, in an easy-to-read style, that would help one who is now dying to desire reconciliation with the Church before death. Any thoughts?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This reader&#8217;s uncle is a lapsed Catholic, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer that has progressed to a very serious point: I&#8217;m putting together my own card and &quot;care package&quot;, and I am wondering if there are any suggestions for a Catholic book that might be good for a man in his situation, a lapsed Catholic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An unusual reader bleg - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/an-unusual-reader-bleg.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An unusual reader bleg - 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