Where Did I Come From? Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There?: Straight Talk for Young Catholics

Rice, Charles E.,Farnan, Theresa

ISBN 10: 1587319292 / ISBN 13: 9781587319297

Published by St. Augustines Press, 2009

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Synopsis:

Where Did I Come From? Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There? is a complete course on Catholicism, featuring concise, reader-friendly, relevant prose. Straight answers are tailored for today’s generation. Topics addressed include: Can I know anything? Can I know what God is like? How am I really in the image and likeness of God? What about my conscience? Am I a gift to others? What about my freedom? Is any sexual activity OK before marriage? Do we have to keep Grandma on a feeding tube forever? 
    This book adapts a wildly successful high-school curriculum developed by Charles E. Rice, who taught for years at an Indiana high school in addition to his storied career at Notre Dame Law School. This classroom-tested curriculum has had life-changing effects. Rice’s students, who took the course in the late 1970s and early 1980s, credit this course for keeping them Catholic, while their peers turned to Zen, politics, or drugs in their search for ultimate meaning.
    Rice, with the valuable assistance of co-author and philosopher Theresa Farnan, updates this curriculum by incorporating the Catechism and the personalist philosophy of John Paul II into the timeless wisdom of the Church. Today’s young Catholics admire the faith more than ever, but need clear answers about what it is and who they are. The straight answers found in this book are a sure antidote to the confusion of the culture of death.
    The revised second edition contains expanded material from Pope Benedict XVI, the Catechism of the Catholic Church and other sources. The second edition, as did the first, has received the Imprimatur from Most Rev. John M. D’Arcy, bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend. The second edition has also received from the Office for the Catechism of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops a Declaration of Conformity, certifying that it is in conformity with the Catechism.
    The second edition is therefore included in the USCCB’s Conformity Listing of Catechetical Texts and is officially approved for use in Catholic schools and educational programs.

About the Author: Charles E. Rice is Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame Law School; Theresa Farnan formerly was a pre-theology instructor and formation advisor at Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Where Did I Come From? Where Am I Going? How...
Publisher: St. Augustines Press
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 2nd Edition