My name is Paul Sofranko and I write Catholic devotional books for people in recovery from alcoholism and addictions. My books take traditional Catholic devotions and apply them to addiction recovery. I feel that it is my mission to show the richness of the Catholic Faith to Catholics and how to apply it in their spiritual journey in recovery.
I have self-published (for now) three books for Catholics and other Christians who are recovering from alcoholism and addictions.
You can find complete information of where to buy them by visiting their Pages on my Catholic spirituality blog (link below the pics) or by clicking on the images:
The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts
and
The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics
My third book is new! Entitled, “The Sober Catholic Way,” it is a summary of almost everything I’ve been writing about on SoberCatholic.com. Please check back here for links as to where you can purchase it!
They are available through Amazon as ebooks and paperbacks, as well as being distributed by Draft2Digital to other retailers. Again, click on the images to be taken to their Sober Catholic pages and find all the places you can order them from.
These are extensions of work that started on Sober Catholic, which discusses how the Catholic Church, with Her rich traditions of Saints and miracles, and especially with Her Sacraments such as the Holy Eucharist and Confession, can help you maintain your sobriety.
However, that’s not all! I am branching out! One of the topics I ocassionally talk about on SoberCatholic is that writing and creativity can me therapeutic. Issues can be dealt with through writing about them either in fiction or non-prose forms.
That got me to thinking….
…which is sometimes dangerous…
but when I combined those thoughts with my Marian Consecration (another topic I like!) the result was:
Building a Civilization of Love: A Call to Creative Catholics
is my new book exhorting Catholics to apply their faith to change
the culture for the better!
It is now available through Amazon as a paperback
and also and ebook for your Kindle reader !
Link to purchase:
Building a Civilization of Love Kindle Edition
Building a Civilization of Love Paperback Edition
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Building a Civilization of Love: A Call to Creative Catholics is a call to arms, or rather, a call to pens, paintbrushes, and video cameras, for creative Catholics to take up St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe’s call to infiltrate pop culture and help alleviate the ills that pervade contemporary society. St. Maximilian saw back in the 1920s how the use of cinema, radio, and mass-market books was corrupting society. He thought that those same tools could be used as a countercultural force to overcome this corruption.
Furthermore, it explains through the example of three critical apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Guadalupe, Lourdes, and Fatima how she herself suggested strategies and alternatives to the dehumanizing and increasingly pagan contemporary culture we have today.
Building a Civilization of Love: A Call to Creative Catholics concludes by showing how the Catholic Faith can be used to provide a road map out of our current morass and a blueprint to build a more just and fair society constructed according to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy and other elements of traditional Catholic Social Teachings.
NOTE: This book is an expanded and revised version of a previously published book entitled, “The Catholicpunk Manifesto.” The text of that book is mostly contained in Chapters V and VI of this work, as well as the Appendices A through C and E, with parts of it in the Preface and earlier chapters.)