Title:
The Catholic Church : what everyone needs to know / John L. Allen, Jr..
Author:
Allen, John L., 1965-
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
©2014
Call Number:
BX1754 .A45 2014
Edition:
Updated Edition.
ISBN:
9780199379804
Physical Description:
xv, 313 pages ; 21 cm
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Contents:
Introduction -- The Catholic Church 101 -- Historical highlights and lowlights -- The church outside "the church" -- The life of the mind -- Worship -- Angels, demons, and saints -- Faith and politics -- Catholicism and sex -- Catholicism and money -- Crisis and scandal -- Rome and America -- New frontiers -- Pope Francis.
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