Book recommendation: The Catholicism Answer Book
I came across this excellent book at my local public library, on the “new books” shelf:
The Catholicism Answer Book by Rev. John Trigilio Jr., PhD and Rev. Kenneth Brighenti, PhD (2007, Sourcebooks Inc.)
Straight-up, no-nonsense, get in/get out question & answer format. I haven’t read the whole thing yet, but it passes all the tests for good, Catholic books: orthodox, faithful answers to the hot button questions about sexual morality (contraception, homosexuality, fornication), life issues (abortion, capital punishment, cloning, embryonic stem cell research), clergy (male priesthood, priestly celibacy), history (the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Da Vinci Code) and the Bible (questions of creation, reading the Bible correctly). And so on.
Best place for this book? On your coffee table, bedside, or the reading rack in your bathroom. Highly recommended.
The authors also wrote Catholicism for Dummies.
Father Brighenti and I also wrote JOHN PAUL II FOR DUMMIES and WOMEN IN THE BIBLE FOR DUMMIES as well as THE EVERYTHING BIBLE BOOK. We are very happy that our books are helping many to know or get reacquainted with the Catholic faith. God bless you all.
Thanks for stopping by, Father John. God bless you, too!
Catholicism Answer Book is now in its THIRD printing with all corrections made and now has an IMPRIMATUR from Archbishop John Myers of Newark.