The Bad Catholic's Guide to the Catechism by John Zmirak

The Bad Catholic's Guide to the Catechism by John Zmirak

Masquerading behind the guise of the old-fashioned Catechism that generations of Catholic school kids in plaid skirts or clip-on ties had to memorize, this candid handbook provides a witty take on the teachings of the Catholic faith. Objections from relativist, New Atheist, dissenting Catholic, and other points of view are featured, with intellectually sound questions and bracingly funny answers. Penned by a Yale-educated author who worked both in the mainstream, secular media as well as for Catholic outlets, the study reveals the whole range of contemporary criticisms aimed at the Church--and how to answer them in kind. Using both a rapier wit and the strong left hook of a blue-collar kid from Queens, this guide defends its faith with good humor and sincere respect at every turn while illustrating the difficulties modern believers face.

"A book by a polymath who is at the same time gloriously funny and massively serious. . thoroughly orthodox and sane. The author capers through the entirety of Catholic doctrine, hagiology, literature, history, and contemporary culture. The reader will be instructed, blessed, and exhilarated." --Thomas Howard, author, Evangelical Is Not Enough
"John Zmirak is easily one of the funniest writers alive . . . smart, well-grounded in his Catholic faith, and not hesitant to share it. . . . He attacks the subject matter with the best of his doctrinally sound depth of knowledge and relays it with maximum humor." --Thomas McArdle, former White House speechwriter and communications director, Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights

John Zmirak received his BA from Yale University in 1986, then his MFA in screenwriting and fiction and his PhD in English in 1996 from Louisiana State University. He has taught composition at LSU and screenwriting at Tulane University, and has written screenplays for and with director Ronald Maxwell (Gods & Generals and Gettysburg).His essays, poems, and other works have appeared in First Things, the Weekly Standard, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today, the American Conservative, the South Carolina Review, The Atlantic, Modern Age, the Intercollegiate Review, the New Republic, Commonweal, and the National Catholic Register, among other venues. He has contributed to American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought. From 2000 to 2004 he served as senior editor of Faith & Family Magazine and a reporter at the National Catholic Register. He works now as an editor for several publishing companies, including ISI. He lives in his native New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780824526801
ISBN 10	0824526805
Title	The Bad Catholic's Guide to the Catechism
Author	John Zmirak
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Crossroad Publishing Company
Year published	2012-11-01
Number of pages	272
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