Prodigal Continent by Robert Hart

Prodigal Continent

Without Roots
by Joseph Ratzinger and Marcello Pera
Perseus Books Group, 2006
(135 pages, $22.00, hardcover)

reviewed by Robert Hart

We know the story of the Prodigal Son, and its message of repentance and forgiveness. The opening of the story focuses on the beginning of his fall, the waste of his inheritance, by which he is known forever. Prodigality in this case was about extravagance, and the satisfaction of lusts.

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Robert Hart is rector of St. Benedict's Anglican Catholic Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Anglican Catholic Church Original Province). He also contributes regularly to the blog The Continuum. He is a contributing editor of Touchstone.

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