By Dr. Scott Hahn
I am passionate about
The Catholic Passion.
In case you haven’t heard yet:
The Catholic Passion is a new book by my dear friend and colleague
David Scott. But it’s more than that. It’s a Catholic phenomenon.
You’ll know what I mean when you read the book. It’s a sustained celebration of the Catholic faith, drawing especially from Scripture, but also from history, the arts, the liturgy, theology, spirituality, and personal reflection.
David has a keen sense of the compelling beauty of the Church’s teaching. He is himself a poetic writer, and so his prose is now part of the Church’s patrimony of beautiful things.
I had the great privilege of reading the chapters of this book, one by one over the last several years, as they were rolling off the author’s home printer. In fact, I got to know David through the pages of
The Catholic Passion, a book he began writing many years ago.
He sent me the first few chapters, and I was bowled over. I called him right away; I told him about the St. Paul Center; and I asked him what he was planning to do when the book was finished.
Within days of his finishing the manuscript, he moved his family from the midwest to my neighborhood, so that he could channel his ample passion for Catholicism into our mission – the mission he now shares with you and me.
David is a workhorse for the Lord and the St. Paul Center. He edits this monthly publication,
Breaking the Bread, as well as our website, SalvationHistory.com, and our scholarly journal,
Letter and Spirit.
If you like all those things, you’ll love
The Catholic Passion. It’s a very important book, a book that marks the beginning of a new way of Catholic apologetics — or, rather, the revival of an ancient way.
David’s method is not only scriptural, but also cultural. Faith manifests its truth and power and beauty in many ways: in music, in sculpture, in cathedrals and novels, in the lives of the saints and in the lives of the poor. And David writes with passion about everything from the frescoes painted in the first Christian tombs to the love poems of Dante, and the prayers of nuns going to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
This book will change the way you love the faith, and so it will change the way you witness to the faith — the way we Catholics do. It will be a change for the better.
The Catholic Passion is yet another gift given by the St. Paul Center to the Church. It’s your partnership with us that makes work like this possible. Thank you!
October 2005 
