The Catholic Source Book [Paperback]

Peter Klein (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2006

This revised edition of The Catholic Source Book is a vast collection of information to help people of faith learn, renew, teach, and live the risen life of Jesus Christ in the Catholic Church. The ten chapters include: Prayers, An Overview of the Tradition, Scripture, Church, Liturgy, The Liturgical Year, Devotions in Catholic Tradition, Veneration of Saints and Heroes, Catholic Symbols, and Word and Phrase Origins.

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About the Author

Rev. Peter Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Winona in Minnesota and has been collecting information for this book for many years. This Third Edition includes pertinent references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Product Details

• Paperback: 508 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt Religion Publishers; 4 Revised edition (December 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0159018838
• ISBN-13: 978-0159018835
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #198,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A little disappointing, November 5, 2009

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Mary Twain "book reviews" (Gainesville, FL USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Catholic Source Book (Paperback)

Everyone reviewed this so highly so I got it, and I don't feel it is a good piece for my Catholic arsenol of learning tools. I find that Patrick Madrid's "Why is THAT in Tradition" is the book I find the information I am initially looking for in the Catholic Source book. Or Scott Hahn's "The Bible at a Glance (Faith Charts)". (Both of these are VERY short - Madrid's is under 200 pgs, and the Chart is only 4 pages but contains more information than the Source Book.) The Source Book is extremely basic and merely touches only the surface of the topics it covers. This book has all the topics you could be interested in, but is just a tease to me.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars informative but sloppy, September 20, 2007

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M. Strabala (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Catholic Source Book (Paperback)

The Catholic Source Book is not a text or a narrative, it is more of an extensive dictionary of Catholic practices, symbols, facts, trivia and history. I was looking forward to this third edition hoping that it would clean up a lot of typographical errors and poor graphics which plagued the second edition. Unfortuantely, this edition looks like it was rushed to print without a final proofing. The information is great and accurate but the layout suffers from inconsistencies in font and font size as well as from occasonally poorly drawn (illegible) maps, diagrams and charts. Content A+, format C.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book Ever, September 30, 2007

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D. Williams "avid reader" (Pacific, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews
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This is the best book ever for Catholics or anyone wanting to know about Catholicism. It's got anything you want to know in it and some things you would never think to ask. We use it as a resource book and it's full of trivia facts. I would definitely recommend it to anyone.