num_pages: 320
description: Anti-Catholics like to paint Church teachings in a way that makes them seem vain backward or superstitious all in the hope of drawing people out of the Faith and into sects or unbelief. Catholic apologists fight back with facts and sound arguments. But theres another area where the Churchs enemies tell their own false story of Catholicism: its history. Whether its from the media in classrooms or out of the mouths of pastors and politicians weve all heard a version of Catholic history filled with unrelenting violence ignorance worldliness and bigotry. Its enough to make many believers question whether the Church truly was founded by Christ! This kind of attack requires no less of a response from those who know the truth. In The Real Story of Catholic History Steve Weidenkopf gives it to you. Weidenkopf (The Glory of the Crusades) collects over fifty of the most common and dangerous lies about Catholic history and drawing on his experience as a historian and apologist shows how to answer them simply and powerfully. Whether its claims about Catholicisms supposedly pagan origins old myths about Galileo or the Inquisition that never seem to go away or more modern misconceptions that anti-Catholics cynically exploit The Real Story provides the desperately needed corrective. Packed with research and diligent in pursuit of the truth while never whitewashing or explaining away the Churchs past faults when theyre found The Real Story of Catholic History is an essential resource for every Catholics bookshelf.
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title: The Real Story of Catholic History: Answering Twenty Centuries of Anti-Catholic Myths
publisher: Catholic Answers Press