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| | Features | Catholic Faith HandbookReligionBeliefsYouthChristian Education
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| | Description | With clear, concise information about the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church--organized to parallel the Catechism of the Catholic Church so that young people can appreciate the richness of Catholic teaching--this handbook is the most comprehensive available. Teens will appreciate the articles and stories that shed light on issues important to them. Useful sidebars give quick, easy access to Catholicism's basics and include "Pray It!" "Looking Back," "Saintly Profiles," "Did You Know?" and "Live It!" A full-color design and over 100 photos make the book lively and interesting for teens. Use either the hardcover or paper edition with your parish program, school class, or youth group--or give it as a gift! | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Brian Singer-Towns | | Paperback: | 464 pages | | Publisher: | Saint Mary's Press | | Publication Date: | 2003-11 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0884897591 | | Package Length: | 9.0 inches | | Package Width: | 6.3 inches | | Package Height: | 0.9 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 13 reviews |
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40 of 44 found the following review helpful:
 A basic guidebook concerning all things Catholic Dec 05, 2004
By Midwest Book Review
The Catholic Faith Handbook For Youth is a basic guidebook concerning all things Catholic. Intended for young adults, yet accessible to anyone who may be fuzzy on the details of Catholicism, The Catholic Faith Handbook For Youth covers creed, sacraments, morality, and prayer, along with articles concerning information on current events from a Catholic point of view, advice for prayer, profiles of thirty-seven Catholic saints, notes on the history of the Catholic Church, and more. Full-color illustrations pepper this highly readible introduction to a spiritual way of life. Especially recommended reading to share with one's preteen and teenage children in order to teach them more about Catholicism and what it means to live one's life by Catholic religious principles.
33 of 40 found the following review helpful:
 Flawed Jul 30, 2007
By Rich Leonardi
While I applaud the authors' attempt to produce a comprehensive, single-volume guide to the faith for teens, this book is problematic. Far too often the authors make false distinctions between a supposed "old" Church that existed before Vatican II and a "new and improved" Church that exists now. For instance, they describe worshippers before the council as "not participants as much as watchers, separated by distance, architecture, and language." Nowhere in the documents of Vatican II or in authoritative pronouncements from the Magisterium will you find such a sweeping, negative assessment.
The authors also claim that Vatican II removed Latin from the liturgy, when in reality the Council fathers instructed that "[t]he use of the Latin language is to be preserved ..." (albeit with an allowance that some of the vernacular may be incorporated.) Likewise, Vatican II had nothing to do with communion in the hand, an innovation introduced in the United States and other Western countries years later; the authors list it as an achievement of the Council. A frequent theme of this book on liturgical matters is disruption instead of continuity.
In the chapter on the Bible, the authors operate from the presumption readers believe the Gospels were written soon after Jesus' death and Resurrection. To the extent teens have thought about this question at all, it's more likely that they believe the more pervasive false notion that the Gospels were written hundreds of years later. (See Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code.")
Perhaps one day someone will take the recently-released United States Catholic Catechism for Adults and adapt it for teens. In the meantime, this book is a flawed substitute. Excellent resources currently available are Father McBride's Teen Catechism, the multi-volume Didache series produced by the Midwest Theological Forum, and the Prove It! series written by Amy Welborn.
7 of 10 found the following review helpful:
A must have for teens and adults Aug 15, 2006
By Growing in Faith
Working in a religious education office, we review many books. This one definitely stood out as an exception. It's a user friendly set-up and references the Bible and the CCC. There is a lot of information under this cover. This handbook is not just for teens, but also for adults. I've given them as gifts and they are well received from those distanced from their faith and those close to it. St. Mary's Press is an excellent publisher.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Better than nothing, I suppose Mar 01, 2010
By Scott R. Lucado
"I'm the other author named Lucado"
This book is a brave attempt at giving teenagers a comprehensive view of the Catholic faith, and it's not bad, but has some implied liberal social viewpoints that are really quite annoying and get in the way of instruction. Bad-mouthing corporations and "gas guzzlers" while promoting gun control is very simplistic, and misses the point.
Still, it's a least a starting point, and is more readable and probably connects to a youth audience far better than an old copy of The Baltimore Catechism or My Catholic Faith.
9 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Excellent resource Jan 11, 2007
By Andrew Boyd
"AJ"
It's getting harder and harder these days to find good information on the Church that isn't tainted by polemic. I have used this resource as part of confirmation programs, RCIA, high school classes, and had people tell me it was great just to peruse through as a reference. Faithful to the Catechism and the broader Tradition, but also engaging and apropos to the interests and questions of most teens. I highly recommend it as a complement to the Catholic Youth Bible for every teen.
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