Presenting the Catholic Faith

Presenting the Catholic Faith
by Frank P DeSiano

153 pages
1986

Read: Sept-Dec 2011


This year I decided just to do it.  I entered catechism classes, or RCIA, the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults.  My husband is Catholic, but we married in my hometown Methodist church.  I never thought this would be an issue for me until after we had Ethan.  I want to have Ethan baptized, just like I was and just like my husband was when we were little.  However, I also want to go to church together.  One other thing about my husband is that he's very stubborn.  Not willing to change his denomination, I decided to look into becoming Catholic.  So I did all the research I could, even grilling questioning my father-in-law, who used to teach these catechism classes.  He was so informative, but I was still having some difficulty.  See, my mom is also very stubborn in her ways and disappointing her would be worse than anything....even at 30 years old I still care what she thinks!  I had to realize that this was my decision and I needed to make it for me.

Now through the first phase of the class, the Inquiry, we've discussed this book in detail.  Anything I wanted to know was answered.  This book was very informative and really did cover everything in a way that anyone would understand, even those like me, who knew nothing about the Catholic religion.  DeSiano sets this up as a Q&A session of sorts.  The most common questions on each topic are asked and answered in each chapter.  The only thing I didn't like was that it was written in 1986 and a lot of the views are different now. But overall I am learning so much from the teacher who is teaching us from this book.

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