A review by susieliston
Catholicism for Dummies by John Trigilio Jr.

3.0

A compromise rating, because as a source of information it was good. There have always been so many things about Catholicism that I've never really understood, and this answered a lot of questions. But as a non-Catholic, I would have preferred it to have been written in a neutral, third person manner, as in "this is what Catholics believe" rather than by a priest from the point of view "this is what is true, of course." It made me a little crazy quite a few times, some homophobic and misogynistic crap in particular made me almost quit, and do not bother reading the history of the Catholic church as told by a priest, (Galileo was right--darn science!-- but he didn't PHRASE things correctly, that's why he got in trouble and had to go into "very comfortable" house arrest"..sort of thing)