I like Being Catholic: Treasured Traditions, Rituals, and Stories

New York: Doubleday, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7th Printing Hard cover in very good condition with deep maroon boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight; no writing, no markings noted. Contains black and white photos throughout. Dust cover in very good condition; not price clipped. * From the book, ""A celebration of the treasured traditions, rituals, and stories that run through the bloodstream of American Catholics. . . . brings together the memories, thoughts, and hopes of famous Catholics and ordinary parishioners, lapsed and ""good-enough"" Catholics, and those who have devoted their lives to the faith. It captures their abiding ties to and deep affection for the Church and offers the wide-ranging, sometimes surprising views on the good things that come with being Catholic. . . . This is not a book of theology. It is about the beauty at the heart of Catholicism. It is about the beauty at the heart of Catholicism. It is about what Teilhard de Chardin called ""the chosen part of things."" It is about family and community, the value of Catholic education, the significance of sacraments and milestones, and the cultural impact of Catholicism - there are lists of the ten best Catholic novels, the ten best Catholic movies, ten Catholic heroes of the twentieth century, ten good reasons to raise your kids Catholic, fifty things Catholics like best about being Catholic, and much more . . . ""