The Portable Catholic: Meaning and Beauty of the Catholic Way

A journey into the Catholic mind deepening some often neglected or misunderstood aspects of Catholicism, meant to be an accurate but easy read for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. This book describes the origins of the Catholic Church and how her title to supremacy in the Christian world was born; why the Catholic Church is considered “inflexible” and the proper meaning of her being “infallible”; how she sees her role and in which way she exercises it. This book also explains or reintroduces to you those institutions and rites which have probably fascinated you or at least awakened your curiosity: from the Pope and his role to Priest Celibacy and Male Priesthood, from the devotion to Mary to the importance of Catholic symbols, from the miracle of Transubstantiation to the solemnity of the Tridentine Mass.