Faith Facts: Answers to Catholic Questions, vol. 1
Overview
Faith Facts: Answers to Catholic Questions, vol. 1, is a natural outgrowth of Emmaus Road Publishing’s popular Catholic Responses department, through which they have served thousands of people who have brought questions concerning the Catholic faith. Faith Facts, vol. 1, will prepare you to answer 23 of the most frequently asked questions about the Catholic Church’s teachings, including papal authority, Mary’s role in our salvation, the truth about birth control, and more.
Faith Facts strives to present sound, constructive teaching on a wide range of topics that are important to Catholics today. Each chapter also contains practical questions to facilitate small group discussions and to assist the reader in applying these teachings to his or her own life.
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- Includes study questions for classroom or small group settings
- Explores the most controversial issues of Catholic faith
- Provides answers and evidence for Catholic claims
- Creed
- This Is My Body
- No Bull
- All in the Family
- Liturgy
- Defending Our Rites
- Come, Worship the Lord!
- The Gospel Truth Concerning Lay Readers
- Spiritual Parents
- Morality
- Going God’s Way
- Persevering to the End
- Should I Obey?
- Marriage and Family
- Marriage in God’s Plan
- Choose Life, and Your Children May Live
- Male and Female He Created Them
- Catholic Education
- Raising Tomorrow’s Saints
- We Have but One Teacher, Jesus Christ
- Where Do We Go Wrong?
- Pure Biology?
- Biblical Apologetics
- Taking God at His Word
- His Name Is John
- Relative Obscurity
- Mary
- The First Marian Dogma
- Mary, Conceived without Sin
- What’s a Mother to Do?
Top Highlights
“One of the effects of this original sin is our weakened freedom (cf” (Page 199)
“‘[D]eath through Eve, life through Mary’ (as quoted in LG 56).” (Page 199)
“God’s plan that He had from the beginning for all human beings.” (Page 199)
“According to Jesus, death cannot separate the faithful—such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—from God. And, if they are alive to God, they must be alive to us through Him as members of His one body. Otherwise, contrary to what Saint Paul says, Christ’s victory over death was incomplete, and His body is not truly one.” (Page 36)
“The phrase ‘full of grace’ is a translation of the Greek word kecharitōménē. This word conveys a sense of completion and perfection that was already present at the time of the Annunciation. Mary’s holiness was not only as complete as possible, but it extended over the whole of her life, from conception onward.” (Page 196)
Faith Facts is biblically grounded and completely faithful to the Magisterium of the Church. The authors address the most controversial issues in the Church today in a remarkably fraternal and constructive manner. I am certain that this book will help lead many people into the heart of the Church.
—Scott Hahn, professor of theology and Scripture, Franciscan University of Steubenville
If you have a question about Catholic teaching, Faith Facts provides a clear, accurate, and understandable explanation of what it is we believe as Catholics.
—Charles J. Chaput, archbishop, PA
- Title: Faith Facts: Answers to Catholic Questions, vol. 1
- Editors: Leon J. Suprenant Jr. and Philip C. L. Gray
- Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing
- Publication Date: 1999
- Pages: 223
Leon J. Suprenant Jr. is the president of Catholics United for the Faith and the editor of Lay Witness, a monthly magazine for lay Catholics. He received his law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and his master’s degree in theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Philip C. L. Gray is vice president of Catholics United for the Faith. He has his undergraduate degree in mental health/human services and theology, and licentiate and master’s degrees in canon law. His work experiences include positions as a social worker, counselor, tribunal administrator, adjunct professor of theology and canon law, and he has published numerous articles on canon law and theology.