The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

INTRODUCTION.TUTY DEAR READER. Perhaps this is the first*?*- time in your life that you have handled a bookin which the doctrines of the Catholic Church areexpounded by one of her own sons. You have, nodoubt, heard and read many things regarding ourChurch ;but has not your information come fromteachers justly liable to suspicion ? You asked forbread and they gave you a stone. You asked forfish and they reached you a serpent. Instead of thebread of truth, they extended to you the serpent offalsehood. Hence, without intending to be unjust,is not your mind biased against us because youlistened to false witnesses? This, at least, is thecase with thousands of my countrymen whom I havemet in the brief course of my missionary career.The Catholic Church is persistently misrepresentedby the most powerful vehicles of information.She is attacked in romances of the stamp of MariaMonk ;in pictorials, like Harper s in; histories, socalled like those of Peter Parley. In a large portion of the press, and in pamphlets, and especiallyin the pulpit, which should be consecrated to truthand charity, she is the victim of the foulest slanders,11