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1.  Introduction

2.  God's News to Man
      Its Message
      The Setting
      When The Bible Was Born
      The Church's Bible

3.  The Early Years of the Church
      Christ the Cornerstone
      Apostolic Witnesses
      Apostolic Successors
      Christian Response
      St. Peter in Rome

4.  Faith--And Common Sense
      Without God, Nothing Makes Sense
      The Human Soul Will Never Die
      Religion Is Our Duty
      Christ Was God
      The New People of God
      One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic

5.  The Papacy: Expression of God's Love
      A Primacy of Love
      Primacy of Power
      The Papacy and Peter
      Papal Infallibility

6.  The Lessons of Genesis
      God Revealed
      Man, As He Was
      God Known
      Reason and Revelation
      Man, As He Is
      The Friendship of God

7.  This Is The Catholic Church
      The Catholic Creed
      The Seven Sacraments
      Mass ... The Holy Sacrifice
      The Law of Christ
      The Structure of the Church

8.   The Precepts of the Church
      Sundays and Holy Days
      Sacramental Life
      Confirmation
      Marriage--A Sacred Vocation
      Church Support
      Fast and Abstinence
      Missionary Spirit

9.  Christian Life and the Modern World
      What Is a Christian?
      The Modern World
      The Christian's Involvement in the World
      Christ and the Christian
      The Christian: Old-Fashioned or Up-to-Date?
      The "Ecumenical" Christian
      The Christian's Prayer
      The Christian and the Bible
      The Christian Goes to Church
      Love in Action

10. To Sin Is to Die
      Our Sense of Sin
      The Bible And Sin
      Kinds of Sin
      Cases and Consequences
      Overcoming Sin

11. Purgatory: Doctrine of Comfort and Hope

12. The Christian Pilgrimage
      Witness to Christ (--500 A.D.)
      Age of Missionaries (500- 1000)
      Age of Reformers (950-1150)
      Age of Teachers (1150-1350)
      Age of Critics (1350-1550)
      Age of Catholic Defenders (1500-1648)
      Age of Rationalism (1648-1789)
      Era of Liberalism (1789 and After)

13. The Rosary: My Daily Prayer
      The Rosary: My Daily Prayer
      Prayers of the Rosary
      The Joyful Mysteries
      The Sorrowful Mysteries
      The Glorious Mysteries
      Texts of Prayers for the Rosary

14. Tell Us About God ... Who Is He?
      God--Fact or Phantom
      Faith or Godless Science?
      God or Man?
      We Know God Exists
      Christ, Lunatic or God?
      Three Persons in One God

15. God's Church in Prophecy and Fulfillment
      The Pre-Christian Message Fulfilled
      The Pre-Christian Church
      The Church Of The New Law
      The Apostolic Age
      The People Of God
      Holy Scripture And Dialogue

16. Savior Of All Mankind
      Christ Is Necessary for You
      One with the Father
      He Is Our God
      The First Christians and Christ
      The Son of God and His Church
      The Divine Christ and the Bible

17. Call Them Great: Five Spiritual Persons Worthy of Imitation
      Call the Great: Introduction
      Frances Xavier Cabrini 1850-1917
      James Cardinal Gibbons 1834-1921
      Rose Philippine Duchesne 1769-1852
      Isaac Jogues, S.J. 1607-1646
      Frances Schervier 1819-1876
      Prayer To Know One's Vocation

18. "Remember the Sabbath ... Keep It Holy!"
      How Did Sabbath Observance Begin?
      Did Christ Observe The Sabbath?
      Sunday Is The Lord's Day
      Catholic Worship

19. Jesus Christ Is True Man
      Ancestors of Christ
      God's Son and Mary's Son
      The Son of Man
      Reparation through Death
      First-Born from the Dead

20. * Let Us Pray

21. The Place of the Mass in Catholic Worship

22. Are You Fit To Be Tied?
      14 questions for would-be marrieds


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