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# Monday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/34434/
- Published: 2014-10-20T07:13:02.000Z
- Updated: 2014-10-20T07:13:02.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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Miscellaneous Rambling

Glorious Indian Summer! Temps got down to 28 here Sunday morning. Lows for the next ten days are in the upper thirties and forties; highs in the fifties and low sixties. I hope to walk and walk until my feet fall off. If this coming winter is like last winter, my walking is slated for a four-month hiatus. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* Astute (and the not-so-astute) readers would have noticed a stupid error in last Friday's BYCU. It's been addressed by an addendum. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* Are adults required to attend weekly classes in order to become Catholic? [No, according to "ke," a "Catholic Answers Forum Elder."](http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=490259&ref=thedailyeudemon.com) His answer rings with authority and I think he's right, but does anyone know who "ke" is? Does anybody have a better link, to something more authoritative than an online discussion forum? The conversion of a friend and good man might rest on it, so any help is greatly appreciated. Comments box or email link on the left. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* Speaking of conversion, I recently dusted off a photocopy of one of the five books I had to read as part of a two-credit self-study course at Notre Dame Law School. It's a book called *Truth in Christ* by Charles Rice. He wrote it back in the early 1980s, as part of a Catholic course geared toward high school seniors who are (i) smart, and (ii) serious about Catholicism. I was stunned by how many of its points I had "internalized" and that still, to this day, pop up in discussions with my children. I emailed Professor Rice and asked him if he ever considered getting the book properly published (I remember he told me that he and a colleague had self-published the book). He told me that St. Augustine's Press had already done it. The current version is updated with teachings from JPII and BXVI. I highly, highly recommend this book: *Where Did I Come From? Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There?: Straight Talk for Young Catholics*.

  
I, incidentally, loathe that title. It screams, "middle school" and "superficial." The book does, indeed, teach *elements* of the Catholic faith, but it's far from superficial or simple. At least the version I have isn't. I guess it's possible that the current version is dumbed down to the point that its content matches its title, but I doubt it. That wouldn't be Professor Rice's style. Nor St. Augustine Press'. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* I've ordered a copy of it. We'll see. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* Say what, throng of readers? What were the other four books a Notre Dame law professor prescribed for a struggling potential convert? Here they are: John Hardon's *Pocket Catholic Catechism*, Edward J. Murphy's *Life to the Full*, Karl Keating's *Catholicism and Fundamentalism*, and James Cardinal Gibbons' *Faith of Our Fathers*. All excellent books. The highly-conservative and orthodox priest who then directed my weekly sessions required me to read *Life in Christ*, which was fine as far as "textbooks" go, but I'd recommend the above five books over that one.