The Essential Catholic Catechism: A Readable, Comprehensive Catechism of the Catholic Faith

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Summary: An excellent and enlighting resource for every Catholic
Review: I strongly recommend this book to every Catholic. Mr. Schreck covers the Catechism in a very readable manner. It is detailed enough to bring an understanding of the Church's teaching. Nothing else it will enrich your faith.

Rating:
Summary: An excellent and enlighting resource for every Catholic
Review: I strongly recommend this book to every Catholic. Mr. Schreck covers the Catechism in a very readable manner. It is detailed enough to bring an understanding of the Church's teaching. Nothing else it will enrich your faith.

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Summary: "A Readable Catechism of the Catholic Church"
Review: Schreck is one of a handful of Catholic catechists producing excellent, orthodox expressions of the Faith based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

The author of "Catholic and Christian", a book which gently explains Catholic beliefs to Protestants, Schreck in "The Essential Catholic Catechism" describes the richness of the Catholic Faith in a comprehensive guide suitable for laymen.

The book is fully indexed to the CCC and parallels it in presentation. One reviewer has called it "a readable Catechism of the Catholic Church", an apt description.

Readers should ignore the disturbing pan of the book by an anti-Catholic nearby. Unfortunately, there will always be those who feel the need to howl against Truth.

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Summary: Even if you're not Catholic...
Review: Schrek's book is a very nice summary of the Catholic Catechism. One difference between the Catholic faith and the Protestant faiths is that Catholics have what can be considered checks and balances on their faith. The Bible, the Tradition, and Past Teachings must all be in agreement or there must be a reason why. So where Protestants are often under the gun to protect their belief from modern changes (whether it's something as simple as women pastors or as difficult as gay marriage) since the Bible doesn't speak to every detail of modern life, Catholics have past Tradition and past Teachings to stabilize the faith. Some reviewers would give books like this a low rating because they believe the Bible and the Bible alone should inform their faith. Since the goal of the book is to describe, summarize, explain and teach the Catholic faith, it seems wrong to blast the book for doing just that. This is an excellent read and I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the Christian faith better than they do now.

Rating:
Summary: Even if you're not Catholic...
Review: Schrek's book is a very nice summary of the Catholic Catechism. One difference between the Catholic faith and the Protestant faiths is that Catholics have what can be considered checks and balances on their faith. The Bible, the Tradition, and Past Teachings must all be in agreement or there must be a reason why. So where Protestants are often under the gun to protect their belief from modern changes (whether it's something as simple as women pastors or as difficult as gay marriage) since the Bible doesn't speak to every detail of modern life, Catholics have past Tradition and past Teachings to stabilize the faith. Some reviewers would give books like this a low rating because they believe the Bible and the Bible alone should inform their faith. Since the goal of the book is to describe, summarize, explain and teach the Catholic faith, it seems wrong to blast the book for doing just that. This is an excellent read and I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the Christian faith better than they do now.

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Summary: Don't buy it
Review: This book is no star material. This book is based on Papacy tradion and not on the bible. This book is not "truth" as Jesus spoke of it. If Jesus were to see this he would rebuke it as he did the Pharisees and Scribes in his time, when anyone spoke of traditon.This book, the teaching of it, brings people into bondage. Jesus Christ, the scripture, sets you free. John 8:32 "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." But the catholic church charges you for this truth.Want an example? Look at confession in the bible and the churche's teachings on it. Sin and as it is written in this book #'s some are 986, 363-364, 1448, are exmples that only the church has the power to forgive sins. But the bible says, Mark 2:7 "Why doth this man thus speak blashemies? Who can forgive sins but God Only?" In Mark's gospel the Pharisee's and Scribes asked Jesus, Mark 7:5 "Why walk not thy disciples to tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?" Jesus chastised them, Mark 7:9 "Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition." Jesus would always refer to the scripture such as, "what is written in scripture." Mark 7:13 "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition..." Therefore this book, is false teaching(against God) and anyone who writes positive of it "does not know the bible." You still don't believe it, read the bible and Martin Luther. Remember, only "God" saves and not this catechism, this teaching of tradition. These teachings will change ever so often but the "truth of Scripture" will "stand forever." Psalm 119:160 " They word is true from the beginning: and ever one of they righteous judgements endureth for ever." It is also written in Revelation 18:4 "...come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." The sins are plenty! Whom will "YOU" believe? Tradition of the Papacy or God?

Rating:
Summary: Don't buy it
Review: This book is no star material. This book is based on Papacy tradion and not on the bible. This book is not "truth" as Jesus spoke of it. If Jesus were to see this he would rebuke it as he did the Pharisees and Scribes in his time, when anyone spoke of traditon.This book, the teaching of it, brings people into bondage. Jesus Christ, the scripture, sets you free. John 8:32 "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." But the catholic church charges you for this truth.Want an example? Look at confession in the bible and the churche's teachings on it. Sin and as it is written in this book #'s some are 986, 363-364, 1448, are exmples that only the church has the power to forgive sins. But the bible says, Mark 2:7 "Why doth this man thus speak blashemies? Who can forgive sins but God Only?" In Mark's gospel the Pharisee's and Scribes asked Jesus, Mark 7:5 "Why walk not thy disciples to tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?" Jesus chastised them, Mark 7:9 "Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition." Jesus would always refer to the scripture such as, "what is written in scripture." Mark 7:13 "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition..." Therefore this book, is false teaching(against God) and anyone who writes positive of it "does not know the bible." You still don't believe it, read the bible and Martin Luther. Remember, only "God" saves and not this catechism, this teaching of tradition. These teachings will change ever so often but the "truth of Scripture" will "stand forever." Psalm 119:160 " They word is true from the beginning: and ever one of they righteous judgements endureth for ever." It is also written in Revelation 18:4 "...come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." The sins are plenty! Whom will "YOU" believe? Tradition of the Papacy or God?