Pocket Catholic Catechism: A Concise and Contemporary Guide to the Essentials of the Faith

Product Description

This comprehensive and portable catechism is ideally suited to the needs of the inquirer as welll as for private or group study. Here are the major elements of the Catholic faith within the areas of doctrine and dogma, morality and the spiritual life, and ritual and worship. This pocket edition, by its very size, is just the catechism for those who want a compact source-book of the Church’s principal teachings and is a fitting companion to the author’s bestselling
The Catholic Catechism.

About the Author

John A. Hardon, S.J. was a member of the Society of Jesus for over fifty years. He died in December, 2000. Father Hardon held a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Loyola University and A Doctorate in Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome. He taught at the Jesuit School of Theology at Loyola University in Chicago and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Catholic Doctrine at St. John’s University in New York as well as helped organize and publish the
Christ Our Life series of religion books for elementary schools and Confraternity of Christian Doctrine programs. Father Hardon was the author of many books, including:
The Catholic Catechism, Religions of the World, Protestant Churches of America, Christianity in the Twentieth Century, and
Spiritual Life in the Modern World.