Everything You Always Wanted to Know Abp

by Paul L. Williams

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385248822
• ISBN13: 9780385248822
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Everything You Wanted to KNow...and More!

Raised Catholic in America, I knew about the rules and regulations of the Church but never learned some of the history behind the creation of the sacraments, infallibility, social teaching, Eucharist and the list goes on. What exactly is a papal bull? What does ex cathedra mean? Why a Pope? What about the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption of Mary and the other Mary beliefs that have confused and/or alienated Protestants throughout the ages? Was St. Christopher a real man? Was Buddha canonized? Is the church anti-military? Was there ever a female pope? Why can?t priests marry? What about the Reformation? All of these questions are answered and more. Some of the answers cast an illumination that as a Catholic Christian makes me squirm?and then some answers completely decimate the ever-occurring belief that Catholics are not Christians. I recommend this book to historians, Catholics, Protestants and anyone else who has ever had a question on the Catholic way of doing things. Some of the answers aren?t pretty, but the truth seldom is.