Catholic Basics: A clear Guide to Catholic Faith, Worship, Scripture, and Life

By Fr. Christopher O'Hara

Catholic Basics is a clear and approachable introduction to the Catholic faith for readers who want to understand what Catholics believe, how those beliefs developed, and how faith is lived beyond the church doors.

Catholicism brings together Scripture, Tradition, worship, prayer, doctrine, sacramental life, moral formation, and the life of the Church. For someone encountering these things for the first time, the connections can sometimes seem difficult to see. This book provides a practical map.

Beginning with the foundations of Catholic belief, the book explores God and the Trinity, Jesus Christ and salvation, the Holy Spirit, the Church, Scripture and Tradition, the seven sacraments, the Mass and Eucharist, Mary and the saints, reconciliation, and Catholic life.

The expanded edition goes further into areas that are often left unexplained in short introductions. Readers will also encounter the Church's teaching authority, becoming Catholic and Christian initiation, vocations and states of life, sacramentals and devotional practices, the liturgical year, fasting and abstinence, Christian hope in the face of death, conscience and moral discernment, Catholic family life, sacred art and architecture, evangelization, and lifelong formation in the faith.

Rather than treating Catholicism as a collection of disconnected rules, these chapters show how belief, worship, prayer, moral choices, community, and everyday responsibilities belong to one Christian life.

Read it as a map, return to the chapters that raise questions, and use those questions as invitations to go deeper into the Catholic faith.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKGVZHXW
• ISBN13: 9798175386104
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 31 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.1" x 5.5"