In this lengthy book of almost 700 pages, its sixty-four-year-old author has gathered together a few letters, several e-mail transmissions, and several items posted to the internet at a web site known as the Catholic Information Center. These communications took place between November of 1996 and December of 1997, and, in content, each deal with topics, which are mostly theological in nature. For example, faith, grace, secret sins, and the Catholic position on slavery are among the topics discussed.
These communications were part of a series of discussions directed at individuals who, for the most part, regarded the author as a devil out to pervert the teachings of Jesus Christ. For that reason, much in these pages is bitter to say the least.
On the other hand, one will also find in these pages a great wealth of highly relevant quotations from prominent Catholic sources spread out over the entire two thousand years of Catholic history. In one sense, then, this is a markedly detailed stroll down the most famous memory lane of them all, which is to say the one generated by what is--by far!--the most successful institution in history: The Catholic Church.
Perhaps, like the author, you hunger to read not only the Bible but every line ever left to us by every pope and by every council, Father of the Church and Doctor of the Church approved by the popes. But, unlike the author, perhaps you have not the wherewithal to spend decades in the kind of seclusion, which makes it possible to devour hundreds of theological volumes. In that case, you may find this book a tour of just the right length to leave you with this blessing: a satisfying sense of having adequately fulfilled a dream you had long thought would never be fulfilled to any extent this side of the grave.