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flameburns623
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Any suggestions? Preferably printed materials which can be affordably given away. Nothing so ponderous and weiighty as the Catechism of he Catholic Church
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Reader-friendly resources to explain things Catholic to non-Catholics?
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Ad_Orientem
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What kind of non-Catholics? I would give a very different book to a Protestant, for example, than I would to an atheist.
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grasscutter
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I would suggest Catholicism for Dummies. The title sounds insulting but it is an excellent resource.
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flameburns623
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Nominal Baptist. Mostly a pop-culture worldling, literate, curious and sometime puzzled, but not necessarily interested in converting.What kind of non-Catholics? I would give a very different book to a Protestant, for example, than I would to an atheist.
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Ad_Orientem
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In that case, I second the vote for Catholicism for Dummies, and would also recommend Why Do Catholics Do That?. Both of those will provide plenty of conversation material, and are not confrontational or polemical in nature.Nominal Baptist. Mostly a pop-culture worldling, literate, curious and sometime puzzled, but not necessarily interested in converting.
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JoyfulRC
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The pamphlet that is available in the Catholic Answers store God’s Love for You is excellent and very inexpensive (25 cents each). Check out the other pamphlets and booklets there too. Every publication I’ve ever seen from CA is impressive and thoroughly grounded in authentic church teaching. I’d also recommend the Catholicism for Dummies and Why do Catholics Do That?
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Isaiah45_9
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Stephen Ray: Crossing the TiberNominal Baptist. Mostly a pop-culture worldling, literate, curious and sometime puzzled, but not necessarily interested in converting.
Awesome story!
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St_Francis
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Gee, I keep recommending this book: Home Sweet Rome. I like it because it clearly explains a lot of Catholic theolgy in a very easy-to-read way, and from a Protestant perspective. I am unfamiliar with the others, tho.
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flameburns623
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The “Dummies” and “Idiots Guides” were putting out 64-page booklets on some topics, which just addressed the high points. They never got around to doing these for religious groups. Shame.
A lot of what this person thinks she knows about the RCC comes from newspaper aricles, pop culture, and sheer junk like the DaVinci Code I’m thinking Pierced By A Sword, a popular novel by a Catholic, and perhaps Evangelical Is Not Enough
Every year or two, Time or Newsweek puts out a magazine sort of pulication, full of pictures, sidebars, and short articles (almost always wrong or from a left-wing/anti-orthodox perspective) about Christ or Christianity or the Bible. These are about 100 glossy pages in length, ‘just enough’ to give a smattering of information to a generation which sees itself as intelligent but pressed for time, and one which is much more image-driven than vocabulary-driven.
Oddly, I saw a copy of the New Testament in a Baptist Book Store executed in the same style. It looked reminiscent of an old Mongomery-Wards spring catalogue, but it was packed with images of Biblical artifacts, maps, graphs, and sidebars. The actual scripture was a standard New International Version or New Living Translation, but you didn’t experience it as if reading the Bible: it really felt like reading a magazine.
We Catholics should take some cues from that; the reading public, which gets propagandised by the popular press, could by the same means, be exposed to some small measure of real information. As I say, I don’t see this person as a near-term prospect for conversion to the Faith, just as someone who is mildly curious right now, who would appreciate just a little bit more information than they have right now, but who would only receive that information if it were not presented in a ham-handed or arm-twisting sort of way.
How the Holy Spirit might use that information in the future is between the soul of my acquaintance and God.
A lot of what this person thinks she knows about the RCC comes from newspaper aricles, pop culture, and sheer junk like the DaVinci Code I’m thinking Pierced By A Sword, a popular novel by a Catholic, and perhaps Evangelical Is Not Enough
Every year or two, Time or Newsweek puts out a magazine sort of pulication, full of pictures, sidebars, and short articles (almost always wrong or from a left-wing/anti-orthodox perspective) about Christ or Christianity or the Bible. These are about 100 glossy pages in length, ‘just enough’ to give a smattering of information to a generation which sees itself as intelligent but pressed for time, and one which is much more image-driven than vocabulary-driven.
Oddly, I saw a copy of the New Testament in a Baptist Book Store executed in the same style. It looked reminiscent of an old Mongomery-Wards spring catalogue, but it was packed with images of Biblical artifacts, maps, graphs, and sidebars. The actual scripture was a standard New International Version or New Living Translation, but you didn’t experience it as if reading the Bible: it really felt like reading a magazine.
We Catholics should take some cues from that; the reading public, which gets propagandised by the popular press, could by the same means, be exposed to some small measure of real information. As I say, I don’t see this person as a near-term prospect for conversion to the Faith, just as someone who is mildly curious right now, who would appreciate just a little bit more information than they have right now, but who would only receive that information if it were not presented in a ham-handed or arm-twisting sort of way.
How the Holy Spirit might use that information in the future is between the soul of my acquaintance and God.
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