It has become the necessity-appointed task of Catholic fiction—a new, red-pilled genre of American Catholic fiction—to lampoon the cultural apostasy by the Church which has lent to the spiritual wasteland created in the suburbs, the oppressive conditions of the urban working class, and the far too scant remains of life in the countryside. In The Ridiculous Man, Frank J. Connor answers the call for such an exposition. From the spiritually bankrupted and petty, acquisitive suburbs to the squalid and dangerous inner cities, our dystopian American present and future assaults the reader on every side.
Conversely, when the Church reaffirms its own constant teachings, the godlessness of the effeminate suburbs and the rancorous inner cities will once again begin to blossom. The culture, ever downstream of the One True Faith, can never be free as the Church finds herself in shackles, imposed or self-condemned.
Protagonists and support characters, good guys and bad guys, confused men of good will and common purveyors of mediocrity: in The Ridiculous Man, every page intones the needfulness of all characters—fictitious and non-fictitious—for the aquae vitae of the One True Faith. In this book, the reader will meet with the Gospel and the anti-Gospel, the Church and the anti-Church, Christ and trappings of the anti-Christ.
Buckle up, get ready, and hold fast: the Church will settle up with the world by nightfall. All debts and all accounts will be settled in the grand reckoning that awaits the reader and the Christian.
Timothy J. Gordon
Timothy studied philosophy in Pontifical graduate universities in Europe, taught it at Southern Californian community colleges, and then went on to law school to study the Constitution. He holds degrees in literature, history, philosophy, and law. Currently, he resides in Southern Mississippi with his wife and seven children, where he writes and teaches philosophy and theology for his own Retrograde Academy. He does a popular tri-weekly podcast called Rules for Retrogrades and is the author of several books: Catholic Republic: Why America Will Perish without Rome; Rules for Retrogrades; and The Case for the Patriarchy. Forthcoming Gordon books are due in late 2022 and early 2023, respectively.