An Ignoble Experiment: The number 1 book in the world is Catholic

2024/02/24

The number 1 book in the world is Catholic

The bestselling book in the world is about the Catholic faith.

This Lent, the Hallow app has been guiding its listeners through the book, He Leadeth Me. This book is now the current bestselling book in the world and it keeps going out of stock. If you haven’t read He Leadeth Me, we’ve been able to get some copies and highly recommend you read it this Lent.

He Leadeth Me tells the story of a priest captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a “Vatican spy.” Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent twenty-three agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia.

Only through an utter reliance on God’s will did he manage to endure the extreme hardship. He tells of the courage he found in prayer—a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustration, the anguish, the fears, the despair. For, as Ciszek relates, the solace of spiritual contemplation gave him an inner serenity upon which he was able to draw amidst the “arrogance of evil” that surrounded him.

Ciszek learns to accept the inhuman work in the infamous Siberian salt mines as a labor pleasing to God. And through that experience, he was able to turn the adverse forces of circumstance into a source of positive value and a means of drawing closer to the compassionate and never-forsaking Divine Spirit.

This book will inspire you toward an even greater faith and trust in God—even in their darkest hour. As the author asks, “What can ultimately trouble the soul that accepts every moment of every day as a gift from the hands of God and strives always to do his will?”

We couldn’t recommend it more for you this Lent. And we celebrate that the story about a Catholic priest and the triumph our Catholic faith is now the current #1 book in the world.

God bless you!