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Fatima, relics, miracles and more: about these and scores of other claims of the Catholic Faith, most people are simply wrong . . . including many Catholics!
They're mistaken about what the Church really requires believers to accept, and unclear about just what She's left to the discretion of the faithful.
To overcome these errors, which can breed doubts and confusion in Catholics and non-Catholics alike, the late Father Hughes here provides clear, succinct, detailed answers regarding what Catholics are bound to believe and practice, and what they're free to dismiss.
Without diluting or minimizing the obligations of Catholics, Fr. Hughes eliminates many obstacles to the conversion of Protestants who find troubling or even objectionable one or more non-essential beliefs or practices of the Church.
From these eye-opening pages, you'll learn:
- The real reason Catholics accept the doctrines of the Church: it's simpler than you may think
- The very minimum every Catholic must believe and do: do you know where the line is drawn?
- The worship and services that all Catholics must render to God (can you name them?) and the ones they are free to practice or not
- How inquirers (and believers, as well) can assent to the Catholic f(more...)
