Catholicism For Dummies
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-1-119-29560-0 (ISBN)
A comprehensive and definitive guide to the Catholic faith Whether you're a member of the faith or just interested in it, Catholicism For Dummies, 3rd Edition offers a casual, straightforward introduction to the ins and outs of the contemporary church. It explores the moral foundations of Catholicism and explains such sacraments as weddings, Baptisms, funerals, Confirmations, and First Communions. It also covers the basics of Catholic belief, including the story of creation, the origin of sin, and even the end of the world. New to this edition, the book covers the succession of Pope Francis, the "People's Pope," whose message of reconciliation among religions and focus on social issues like poverty and inequality have made him immensely popular, even among non-Catholics.
* Explains where the church and the Pope stand on important moral and social issues * Covers modern questions of moral importance to Catholics, like gay marriage, abortion, and the death penalty * Reveals what modern life is like in the priesthood * Written by the co-hosts of the popular weekly television program "Crash Course of Catholicism" In this accessible guide, you'll take a full and rich look at this diverse and vibrant religion and understand what it is to be a Catholic today.
Rev. John Trigilio Jr., PhD, ThD, is President of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy and is Executive Editor of Sapienta magazine. Rev. Kenneth Brighenti, PhD, has served on the Board of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy and is a former U.S. Naval Reserve chaplain. Fathers Trigilio and Brighenti are also coauthors of Catholicism All-in-One For Dummies.
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 3
Icons Used in This Book 3
Beyond the Book 4
Where to Go from Here 4
Part 1: What Do catholics believe? 5
Chapter 1: What It Means to Be Catholic 7
What Exactly Is Catholicism Anyway? 7
Knowing What the Catholic Church Teaches 9
Grasping the basic beliefs 9
Respecting the role of the Church and its leaders 10
Worshipping as a Catholic: The Holy Mass 13
Bringing body and soul into the mix 14
Participating inside and out 14
Behaving Like a Catholic 15
Following the general ground rules 15
Avoiding sin 16
Heeding the Church’s stance on tough issues 17
Praying as a Catholic: Showing Your Devotion 17
Praying and using devotions 17
Realizing the importance of Mary and the saints 18
Following traditions 18
Chapter 2: Having Faith in God’s Revealed Word 19
How Do You Know If You Have Faith? 20
Having Faith in Revelation 21
Faith in the written word: The Bible 22
Faith in the spoken word: Sacred Tradition 26
Backing Up Your Faith with Reason: Summa Theologica 32
Through motion 33
Through causality 34
Through necessity 34
Through gradation 34
Through governance 35
Chapter 3: In the Beginning: Catholic Teachings on Creation and Original Sin 37
Making Something out of Nothing 38
Breathing Life into the World: Creationism or Evolution? 38
Angels and Devils: Following God or Lucifer 40
Infused knowledge, eternal decisions 40
The angels’ test and the devil’s choice 41
Witnessing the Original Sin 42
Tempting our first parents 42
Losing gifts 42
Wounding our nature 43
Being redeemed by God’s grace 44
Facing the four last things 44
Anticipating What’s to Come: Moving toward the End of Creation 45
The Second Coming 45
Resurrection of the dead 47
General judgment 47
The end of the world 47
Chapter 4: Believing in Jesus 49
Understanding Jesus, the God-Man 50
The human nature of Jesus 50
The divine nature of Jesus 53
The Savior of our sins; the Redeemer of the world 54
The obedient Son of God 55
The Gospel Truth: Examining Four Written Records of Jesus 56
Catholic beliefs about the Gospel 56
How the Gospels came to be 57
Comparing Gospels 58
Dealing with Heresy and Some Other $10 Words 63
Gnosticism and Docetism 64
Arianism 64
Nestorianism 65
Monophysitism 66
Chapter 5: Defining “The Church” and What Membership Means 69
Establishing a Foundation: Built on Rock 70
Seeing the Church as the Body of Christ and Communion of Saints 71
Understanding the Four Marks of the Church 72
Fulfilling Its Mission 73
The priestly office: Sanctifying through the sacraments 74
The prophetic office: Teaching through the Magisterium 74
The kingly office: Shepherding and governing through the hierarchy 75
Membership Has Its Benefits 76
Chapter 6: Organizing the Church 79
Getting to Know the Pope 80
How the pope gets his job 80
Is he really infallible? 83
Now that’s job security 88
Where the pope hangs his hat 89
Who’s Next in the Ecclesiastical Scheme of Things 91
Cardinals 91
Bishops and archbishops 92
The vicar general 95
The parish priest 96
Deacons 99
Monks and nuns, brothers and sisters 100
Part 2: Celebrating the Mysteries of Faith 103
Chapter 7: Body and Soul: Worshipping Catholic Style 105
Getting Your Body and Soul into the Act 106
Understanding Symbols and Gestures 106
The sign of the cross 107
The genuflection 107
The crucifix 107
Holy water 108
Sensing God 109
Through sight 109
Through touch 112
Through smell 112
Through sound 114
Through taste 114
Chapter 8: Entering the Church: Baptism, Communion, and Confirmation 117
Come On In — The Water’s Fine 118
Becoming Christ’s kith and kin 118
Washing away original sin 119
Baptizing with water 120
Receiving the sacrament of Baptism in other ways 125
The Holy Eucharist 128
Understanding the consecrated host 128
Discovering who can receive Holy Communion 130
Partaking of First Holy Communion 131
Coming of Age: Confirmation 132
Chapter 9: The Sacraments of Service and Healing 135
The Sacraments of Service and Community 135
Marriage — Catholic style 136
Holy Orders 143
The Sacraments of Mercy and Healing 145
Penance 145
Anointing of the Sick 152
Chapter 10: Celebrating the Catholic Mass 155
What Exactly Is the Mass? 156
Honoring the Sabbath publicly 157
Participating fully 157
Uniting past, present, and future 158
The Two Parts of the Mass 158
Beginning the Mass 159
Greeting (Introductory Rite) 160
Acknowledging sin (Penitential Act) 160
Gloria 161
Opening Prayer (Collect) 161
The Liturgy of the Word 162
The Liturgy of the Eucharist 166
Vatican II and the Celebration of Mass 175
Allowing worship in vernacular languages 175
Other changes resulting from Vatican II 176
Checking Out the Roman Missal, Third Edition 177
Understanding the Latin roots 177
Seeing why change was necessary 178
Knowing what it means for you in the pew 178
Adjusting the Mass for the Occasion 178
Weekday and Sunday 179
Holy days of obligation 179
Simple and solemn celebrations 180
Spiritual Seasons of the Year 181
Christ Our Light: The first half of the liturgical year 181
Christ Our Life: The second half of the liturgical year 182
Part 3: Living a Saintly Life 183
Chapter 11: Obeying the Rules: Catholic Law 185
Following the Eternal Law of God 186
The divine positive law 186
The natural moral law 187
The human positive law 189
Playing by the Church’s Rules 193
Attending Mass on all Sundays and holy days of obligation 194
Receiving the Holy Eucharist during Easter season 194
Confessing your sins at least once a year 195
Fasting and abstaining on appointed days 195
Contributing to the support of the Church 196
Observing Church marriage laws 196
Annulments 197
Supporting Missionary Work of the Church 198
Chapter 12: Loving and Honoring: The Ten Commandments 199
Demonstrating Love for God 200
I: Honor God 200
II: Honor God’s name 202
III: Honor God’s day 203
Loving Your Neighbor 205
IV: Honor your parents 205
V: Honor human life 206
VI and IX: Honor human sexuality 208
VII and X: Honor the property of others 211
VIII: Honor the truth 211
Coming Out Even Steven 213
Chapter 13: Being Good When Sinning Is So Easy 215
Cultivating Good Habits 216
Prudence: Knowing what, when, and how 216
Justice: Treating others fairly 218
Temperance: Moderating pleasure 220
Fortitude: Doing what’s right come hell or high water 221
The Theological Virtues 222
The Seven Deadly Sins 223
Pride goeth before the fall 225
Envying what others have or enjoy 226
Lusting after fruit that’s forbidden 227
Anger to the point of seeking revenge 228
Gluttony: Too much food or firewater 229
Greed: The desire for more and more 230
Sloth: Lazy as a lotus-eater 230
Chapter 14: Standing Firm: The Church’s Stance on Some Sticky Issues 231
Celibacy and the Male Priesthood 232
Flying solo for life 232
No-woman’s-land 238
Matters of Life and Death 240
Abortion 240
Euthanasia 243
The death penalty 245
The Just War Doctrine 246
Planning Your Family Naturally 250
The moral argument against artificial contraception 250
The natural alternative to contraception 251
What if you can’t conceive naturally? 253
Defending Traditional Family Life 255
The Economy and the Environment 257
Money, money, money 257
Ecology Theology 258
Part 4: Praying and Using Devotions 259
Chapter 15: Growing in the Faith 261
Having a Personal Relationship with God through Prayer 262
Practicing the four types of prayer 262
Getting to know spontaneous and formal prayer 264
Praying in Private and in a Community 265
Taking personal time with God: Private prayer 266
Joining others for communal prayer 267
Saying the Lord’s Prayer 269
Taking It to the Next Level: The Stages of Spiritual Growth 271
Purgative: Practicing self-denial and sacrifice 271
Illuminative: Distinguishing good from evil 272
Unitive: Connecting with God 274
Chapter 16: Showing Your Love for God 275
Going Beyond Your Basic Duty 276
Knowing when and where to pray devotions 276
Separating devotions from Mass 276
Running the Gamut of Devotions 277
Praying novenas to the saints 277
Loving litanies 279
Looking at statues and icons 280
Making pilgrimages 281
Going on a retreat 281
Wearing sacred gear 282
Praying the Rosary 283
Saying the Divine Mercy Chaplet 287
The Way of the Cross 288
Chapter 17: Expressing Affection for Mary 291
No, Catholics Don’t Worship Mary 291
What Catholics Believe about Mary 294
She’s the Mother of God 294
She’s the Mother of the Church 296
She’s the Mother of the Mystical Body of Christ 296
She was conceived through Immaculate Conception 297
She went to heaven, body and soul 300
Her never-ending virginity 301
Up Close and Personal with Mary 302
May crowning 302
First Saturdays 303
Marian shrines and apparitions 304
Chapter 18: Honoring the Catholic Saints 309
Having a Place in the Hearts of Catholics 310
Honoring God’s Good Friends 312
It’s All about Intercession 312
Recognizing a Saint 314
Looking at the process to becoming a saint 315
Going through the investigations for sainthood 316
Experiencing the beatification and canonization Mass 320
A Saint for Every Day of the Year 321
Discovering the Communion of Saints 322
Saints in heaven 323
Believers on earth 324
Souls in purgatory 325
Limbo 328
Chapter 19: Practicing Catholic Traditions 329
Adoring the Blessed Sacrament 329
Participating in Benediction 330
Adoring at church during Perpetual Adoration or the 40-hour devotion 331
Representing Life’s Journey: Other Religious Processions 334
Meatless Fridays 336
The tradition of abstaining 336
Substituting Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy for abstinence 337
Using Sacramentals 337
Catholic Funerals 339
Signifying death with ashes 339
Commemorating with blessed palms 340
Receiving the blessing of throats 340
Exorcising demons 340
Tolling bells 341
Celebrating Year-Round 342
Feast of the Epiphany 344
Feast of Candlemas 344
St Patrick’s Day 345
St Joseph’s Day 345
Marian Feasts in May 346
Feast of St Anthony of Padua 346
Feast of St Thérèse of Lisieux 346
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe 346
Part 5: The Part of Tens 347
Chapter 20: Ten Famous Catholics 349
Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910–1997) 349
Archbishop Fulton J Sheen (1895–1979) 351
Mother Angelica (1923–2016) 352
John F Kennedy (1917–1963) 353
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801–1890) 354
Bishop John Carroll (1735–1815) 355
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) 355
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) 356
Dorothy Day (1897–1980) 356
Father Benedict Groeschel, CFR (1933–2014) 357
Chapter 21: Ten (Plus One) Popular Catholic Saints 359
St Peter (died around A.D 64) 359
St Paul of Tarsus (10–67 A.D.) 361
St Dominic de Guzman (1170–1221) 362
St Francis of Assisi (1181–1226) 362
St Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) 363
St Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) 364
St Patrick of Ireland (387–481) 365
St Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–1897) 365
St Pio of Pietrelcina (1887–1968) 366
Pope St John XXIII (1881–1963) 367
Pope St John Paul II, the Great (1920–2005) 367
Chapter 22: Ten Popular Catholic Places 371
Rome 371
The Basilica de Guadalupe 373
San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy 374
The Basilica of Czestochowa, Poland 375
The Basilica of Lourdes, France 376
Fatima, Portugal 377
Basilica of St Francis of Assisi 378
The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception 378
The Minor Basilica of Saint Anne de Beaupré 379
The Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament 379
Part 6: Appendixes 381
Appendix A: A Brief History of Catholicism 383
Ancient Times (A.D 33–741) 383
Non-Christian Rome (A.D 33–312) 383
Christian Rome (A.D 313–475) 385
Barbarian invasions and the fall of Rome (A.D 476–570) 386
Pope St Gregory the Great to Charles Martel (A.D 590–741) 387
The Middle Ages (A.D 800–1500) 388
Christendom: One big, mighty kingdom 388
The Golden Age 391
The downward spiral 392
The Reformation to the Modern Era (A.D 1517–Today) 395
The growing need for reform 395
The reformers 397
The Catholic Church’s response: The Counter Reformation 400
The Age of Reason 401
The Age of Revolution 402
The Modern Era 405
Appendix B: Popular Catholic Prayers 413
Latin Rite (Western Catholic) Prayers 413
Our Father (Pater Noster) 413
Hail Mary (Ave Maria) 414
Glory Be 414
Salve Regina 414
Memorare 415
Act of Contrition 415
Prayer to Guardian Angel 416
Grace Before/After Meals 416
Prayer to St Michael the Archangel 417
Act of Faith 417
Act of Hope 417
Act of Love (Charity) 417
Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary 418
Byzantine and Eastern Catholic Prayers 419
Prayer before meals 419
Prayer after meals 420
Index 421
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.02.2017 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 187 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 824 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-119-29560-2 / 1119295602 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-119-29560-0 / 9781119295600 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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