BIOGRAPHY

Moira M. Noonan

Raised as a Catholic, author Moira Noonan began apprenticeship in New Age practices and ideas as a college student.  Over a twenty-five year timeframe, she worked in Religious Science ministry, as a psychic counselor and a therapist.  She became certified or developed expertise in such areas as Hypnotherapy, Past-Life Regression, Astrology, the Course in Miracles, Reiki, channeling, crystals, goddess spirituality, clairvoyance, and other occult practices.

In 1993, after a series of powerful conversion experiences, she returned to the Church, and is now a popular speaker in the Christian community, witnessing and evangelizing, and explaining the deeper meaning and influences of the New Age movement.  Noonan has told her story via religious cable and radio stations worldwide.  She has a featured chapter about her conversion in Prodigal Daughters, Ignatius Press.

Ransomed from Darkness: The New Age, Christian Faith, and the Battle for Souls.   

Ransomed From Darkness: The New Age, Christian Faith and the Battle for Souls

By Moira Noonan, with a Foreword by Father John Hampsch, CMF

Ave Maria Press is delighted to update you about the publication of an important new book, Ransomed From Darkness: The New Age, Christian Faith and the Battle for Souls, by Moira Noonan. Ransomed from Darkness is a moving and sometimes harrowing account of the author's journey from her childhood faith, into the depths of the New Age movement and the occult, and her eventual redemption through the intercession of Christ and his Church. 

Ransomed From Darkness has already been called "a contemporary classic in the literature of spiritual warfare." Comments from readers, a table of contents and information about the author are given below.

I hope you will find this book of interest to your audience. The author continues to be visible in the broadcast media, including an appearance on the USCCB sponsored "Catholic Bookmarks", and in a number of national and regional Catholic publications. 

READER COMMENTS:

"Ransomed From Darkness is a splendid testimony of the truth and divine power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to renew the life and culture of our fallen world. The depth of the spiritual and cultural darkness in Moira's past encounters makes accessible the supernatural riches of life with Christ and His Church."

- FR. STAN FORTUNA CFR, recording artist and author

"I could hardly put it down. I'm sure it will touch many, many souls. I will try to make it known to those whom I know are going through a conversion."

FR. DONALD CALLOWAY, Franciscan University of Steubenville

"Noonan's life story is guaranteed to promote the praise of God for his goodness in seeking to lift his precious people from the quicksand of evil and to deflect the machinations of the Evil One. . . . No one can read this book without rushing to Jesus, like a child encountering a pit of vipers who runs to the protective and loving arms of her father:"

- FR. JOHN HAMPSCH CMF, author of Healing the Family Tree

"In this wonderfully and simply detailed account of her years in the New Age, her release from the bonds of this many faceted movement, and her final conversion to a Christian life, Noonan reveals how Faith can deliver us from the dark spirits who seek to destroy us. She demonstrates how it gently beckons us into a life of peace and joy, embedded in its own deeply spiritual and often mystical richness."

- MARILYN M. MARSHALL PHD, Psychotherapist

"Noonan pulls back the curtain on the contemporary Wizards of Oz who teach and evangelize the Old Age, pre-Christian Gnostic and goddess gospels of self- glorification. She calls for Christian preachers, teachers and laypeople to awaken from their enchantment with the seductions of NewAge gurus and give back the glory of creation to God."

- DR. NEIL YOUNG, Seminary of the Missionaries of Charity Fathers

"Noonan sheds her light so that others may see the truth. I am using this book and her expertise in our own parish, and in as many places as I can, with young and the more mature alike."

- REV. WAYNE SANDERS, Good Samaritan Episcopal Church, San Diego