What Is Catholicism?: Hard Questions-Straight Answers

What is Catholicism? Questions ... Answers ... Truth Can you defend your Faith without becoming tongue-tied or vacillating? Do you feel adequately prepared to explain Church teaching to anyone who asks? Now you can. Using language and terms all of us can understand, Father John Redford gives straight answers to more than fifty of the hardest questions about Catholicism. From the Bible and Church authority to sexuality and ecumenism, this work grapples with the basic tenets of Catholic teaching and provides straightforward responses to such pointed questions as How can apologetics (the defense of one's own Faith) be reconciled with ecumenism (the search for visible unity among all Christians)? and Has the Roman Catholic Church, in its doctrines of the Virgin Mary, confused doctrine and Tradition with legend? With respect and insight into other Christian traditions as well