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Why Catholics are Right, Michael Coren, McLelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2011.
with no basis whatsoever, I thought this book would be on Catholic apologetics dealing with objections raised by mainline Protestants. There is a bit of explanation of that in the book. But, the book is really an explanation of the truth behind a lot of anti-Catholic attacks on the Church.
He offers perspectives on Catholic history, theology, moral teaching on contraception, abortion, and homosexuality, the Bible, Church hierarchy and tradition, the Inquisition, Galileo, the Eucharist, the Virgin Mary, and other topcs.
There is no index to the subjects covered in the book. So, if you’re looking for something in particular, you have to browse the chapter that closest matches your subject.
He spends an entire chapter discussing the sex abuse scandals. Probably the one new thing I read there is that the incidence of sex abuse among Jewish and Protestant ministers is about the same or higher than among Catholic clergy.
There is no imprimatur on the book, but the dust jacket has an endorsement from Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia.
For someone who is considering entering the Catholic Church, someone who is a teacher of religion in the Catholic Church, or perhaps someone who has not run across explanations of all the major attacks on the Church over the centuries into the present time, and maybe some general reades, this book will be a concise journey through these topics in 217 pages.
It’s worth knowing the truth about these various subjects because, as the author states in the concluding paragraph of the book, it is worth knowing the Catholic Church. “Because Catholics are right.”
see more at www.mclelland.com and www.michaelcoren.com.
with no basis whatsoever, I thought this book would be on Catholic apologetics dealing with objections raised by mainline Protestants. There is a bit of explanation of that in the book. But, the book is really an explanation of the truth behind a lot of anti-Catholic attacks on the Church.
He offers perspectives on Catholic history, theology, moral teaching on contraception, abortion, and homosexuality, the Bible, Church hierarchy and tradition, the Inquisition, Galileo, the Eucharist, the Virgin Mary, and other topcs.
There is no index to the subjects covered in the book. So, if you’re looking for something in particular, you have to browse the chapter that closest matches your subject.
He spends an entire chapter discussing the sex abuse scandals. Probably the one new thing I read there is that the incidence of sex abuse among Jewish and Protestant ministers is about the same or higher than among Catholic clergy.
There is no imprimatur on the book, but the dust jacket has an endorsement from Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia.
For someone who is considering entering the Catholic Church, someone who is a teacher of religion in the Catholic Church, or perhaps someone who has not run across explanations of all the major attacks on the Church over the centuries into the present time, and maybe some general reades, this book will be a concise journey through these topics in 217 pages.
It’s worth knowing the truth about these various subjects because, as the author states in the concluding paragraph of the book, it is worth knowing the Catholic Church. “Because Catholics are right.”
see more at www.mclelland.com and www.michaelcoren.com.
