What Catholics Really Believe

by Karl Keating

Publisher:

Ignatius

, 1992

Overview

The popular apologist and best-selling author of Catholicism and Fundamentalism addresses fifty-two of the most common misconceptions about the Catholic Faith that are held by many Catholics and Protestants. Drawing upon Scripture and the Catholic tradition, he not only shows the logical errors in these positions but clearly spells out Catholic teaching and explains the rationale behind frequently misunderstood doctrines and practices. An excellent guide to what Catholics really believe and why.

Key Features

• Spells out Catholic teaching.
• Explains the rationale behind frequently misunderstood doctrines and practices.
• Explores what Catholics really believe and why.

Praise for Print Edition

Catholics and others who want to play with a full deck will welcome the fifty-two explanations provided by Karl Keating in What Catholics Really Believe. He deals with each question crisply and clearly. Readers can await the last trump with equanimity.

—Ralph McInerny, University of Notre Dame

With erudition, wit, and charm, Karl Keating explains some of the most common misunderstandings of the Roman Catholic Church. I highly recommend this work to Catholics seeking better to understand our Faith.

—Cardinal John O’Connor, Archdiocese of New York

Keating is simply one of the best Catholic apologists alive. He writes in the tradition of, and as a worthy successor to, Frank Sheed and Fulton Sheen. He is thoroughly orthodox, reasonable, clear, and interesting.

—Peter Kreeft, Author, Fundamentals of the Faith

Product Details

• Title: What Catholics Really Believe—Setting the Record Straight: 52 Answers to Common Misconceptions about the Catholic Faith
• Author: Karl Keating
• Publisher: Ignatius
• Print Publication Date: 1992
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 155
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Catholic Church › Apologetic works; Catholic Church › Doctrines
• ISBNs: 9780898705539, 0898705533
• Resource ID: LLS:WHTCTHLCSRLLBLV
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T21:07:48Z

About Karl Keating

Karl Keating (born 1950), a prominent Catholic apologist and author, is the founder and president of Catholic Answers, a lay apostolate of Catholic apologetics and evangelization. He received his undergraduate degree in Applied Math at UCSD in 1972 and went on to get a J.D. at the University of San Diego. He worked as an attorney practicing civil law in the early 1980s. Leaving Mass one Sunday in 1979, he found anti-Catholic tracts on the windshields of the cars in the church parking lot.