Ask a Franciscan: Answers to Catholic Questions

No one knows better what questions Catholics ask than Franciscan Father Pat McCloskey, who, for years, has heard people's questions and then responded in his Ask a Franciscan column in the award-winning St. Anthony Messenger magazine.

Father Pat has mined the many questions he has received and collected them in this book, with the hope that readers will see the connection between their faith and their spiritual growth as disciples of Jesus Christ.

For easy use, Father Pat grouped questions and answers into these subjects: how we understand God as Father, Son, and Spirit how we relate to Mary and the other saints how we read Scripture how we celebrate the sacraments how we pray how we grow morally how we grow in faith and practice it how we experience forgiveness and redemption.