A Revealing Look at a "Catholic" Cult ~ And Some Important Warning Signs!

Book Review

Spiritual Blackmail: My Journey Through a Catholic Cult

by Sherri Schettler

Lifelong Habits, LLC, 2014

I received this book today in the mail, and read it in one sitting. Sherri Schettler offers the painful benefit of her experiences of being misled, misdirected, and shamefully used by "charismatic" figures who employed typical brainwashing and cult leadership practices to control their followers.

Schettler performs an invaluable service while sharing her harrowing journey into, and finally out of a sect that she mistakenly had come to believe was the "only true Catholic Church."

Her book is well written, and is gripping. I found myself picking it right back up again, after deciding to take a short break; I simply had to read "just one more chapter."

Readers will be educated as to the types of arguments and deceptions used by those who seek to recruit and manipulate followers, as they build "religious movements" that amount to nothing more than self-gratifying personality cults.

I believe that Schettler's book is extremely timely and important. Having had a much shorter, yet frighteningly similar experience myself, with the Franciscan Brothers Minor – in Fort Wayne, Indiana (2012), I know "Catholic Cults" are not only to be found today among radical traditionalists. They exist even among new "religious communities" that have sprung up within the Church since Vatican ll, and the dawn of the "New Evangelization."

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