For the first time in 400 years the Catholic Church has authorized an official universal catechism, which instantly became an international best-seller: the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Using this official Catechism as a basis, the highly-regarded author and professor Peter Kreeft presents a complete compendium of all the major beliefs of Catholicism written in his readable and concise style.

Since the Catechism of the Catholic Church was written for the express purpose of grounding and fostering catechism based on it for local needs and ordinary readers, Kreeft does just that, offering a thorough summary of Catholic doctrine, morality, and worship in a popular format with less technical language. He presents a systematic, organic synthesis of the essential and fundamental Catholic teachings in the light of the Second Vatican Council and the whole of the Church's Tradition.

This book is the most thorough, complete and popular catechetical summary of Catholic belief in print that is based on the universal Catechism.

"In Catholic Christianity, Peter Kreeft has taken the core of the Catechism's teaching and has represented it in his pithy and winning style. The result is the best entree to the Catechism yet and therefore the best entree to the Catholic faith."
-Karl Keating
Author, What Catholics Really Believe

"Peter Kreeft's work is: (1)unfailingly brilliant, (2)intellectually agile, (3)astonishingly perspicasious, (4)gloriously orthodox, (5)Chestertonianly aphoristic. Buy and read this book, and be instructed and delighted."
-Thomas Howard
Author, On Being Catholic

"As an apologist who speaks at many seminars and conferences across the country I am often asked what book I would recommend for an adult catechetics class. I always find myself recommending three or four books rather than one. No longer. This is the ONE book I've been looking for! Dr. Kreeft gives a summation of our Catholic Faith based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church that is filled with bite-sized morsels of truth and producing a veritable feast of faith!"
-Tim Staples
Radio Host and Apologist

"What a wonderful compilation this is of the essential elements of Catholic Christianity! Kreeft has laid out all that we need to know of Creed, Code, and Cult, those mighty pillars on which the Catechism of the Catholic Church may be said to repose. Here is a sure lucid guide to the great words, works, and worship by which we Catholics define ourselves."
-Regis Martin
Author, The Last Things

Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., a Professor of Philosophy at Boston College is the best-selling author of over 25 books including Prayer for Beginners, Back to Virtue, A Refutation of Moral Relativism, Heaven the Heart's Deepest Longing and Fundamentals of the Faith.