Growing Up Catholic:  An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen, and Everyone In-Between
The authors ofGrowing Up Catholichave fully 17 names among  them. Here goes: Mary Jane Frances Cavolina Meara, Jeffrey Allen Joseph Stone,  Maureen Anne Teresa Kelly, and Richard Glen Michael Davis. If this merits a  smirk, you'll loveGrowing Up Catholic. First published in 1985, this  classic collection of essays, games, lists, quizzes, drawings, and photos  inspired two sequels (More  Growing Up CatholicandStill  Catholic After All These Years) and has now been updated for the  millennium. ("After all, let's not forget where this whole millennium thing came  from," the Introduction explains.) The many new features of this edition include  "Que Sera, Sera: Who Will Be the Next Pope?" and "Ansubstantiation-tray: Can't  Anybody Here Speak Latin?"Growing Up Catholicis bubbly but never  blasphemous--just irreverent enough to be interesting, but not so irreverent as  to be an inappropriate confirmation gift.--Paul Power