Friend considering converting

[edward_george]

I’m surprised no one has mentioned it, but the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is also an excellent resource and a great gift that our Holy Father Emeritus gave us while he was Pope. It distills the basic thought of the Catechism into about 600 question-and-answer articles, each of which is brief and digestible, and so it’s formatted like an older catechism. It also cross-references the CCC in case more reading is necessary.

I happen to find the CCC to be quite informative if read in small chunks, about 10 paragraphs at a time or so. It takes months to get through it like that, but you absorb a lot that way.

-ACEGC

 

[aemcpa]

I’m surprised no one has mentioned it, but the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is also an excellent resource and a great gift that our Holy Father Emeritus gave us while he was Pope. It distills the basic thought of the Catechism into about 600 question-and-answer articles, each of which is brief and digestible, and so it’s formatted like an older catechism. It also cross-references the CCC in case more reading is necessary.

I happen to find the CCC to be quite informative if read in small chunks, about 10 paragraphs at a time or so. It takes months to get through it like that, but you absorb a lot that way.

-ACEGC

The whole Compendium is online:

vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/archive_2005_compendium-ccc_en.html

The whole Catechism is also online:

vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM

 

[sw85]

I am not sure if this is the right forum for this thread, so my apologizes if it is the wrong spot.

Anyway I have a friend who is considering converting to Catholicism. She is 28 years old and does not know a ton about the Catholic faith. Does anyone know any good books that can help/inspire her.Thanks

I’ve recently been reading Fr. Michael Muller’s The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It’s intimidating in length but extremely readable, and it offers a beautiful defense of the essential truths of the Catholic faith (which are all expressed in some way in the Mass). Bear in mind he was writing in the 19th century so “The Mass” was for him what we would call the TLM, but it mostly still applies.

The Catechism of course is excellent too. For more philosophical background re: the Church’s moral teachings, check out Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition, which also reviews the philosophical arguments for the existence and nature of God.

 

[TimothyH]

Thanks Tim,

I just bought a copy. I will read it over before giving it to her in case she has any questions that pop up. Also this might be a good book for my dad who is not a practicing Catholic.

I havn’t read it in a while myself and that is exactly what I am going to do.

Scepter publishes quite a few books like that - short, to the point and <$10.

-Tim-