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Title: no depth, no true charity, just catechism rehashed
Review: I left the Catholic Church a few years ago just because of the rules about papal infallibility, contraception - not the rules as such but their complete overshadowing of personal responsibility of each of us and their lack of charity.In a way, Mr. Buckley's book is reassuring. If that is what Catholicism is, the correctness of my decision to leave is reaffirmed for me. And goodness, the argument that something is good (the centralistic One Church of Catholicism) because it has been around for a long time - I was astonished to see that this argument still is printable in a serious book!I give the book a 2 because it is nicely written but don't expect anything that really inspires or breaks new ground in here.
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