Excerpt from God, Man and Religion: Being of a Short Apologetic Series
Correspondents have repeatedly pointed out the need of a set of short apologetical books specially written to meet the requirements of this country, beginning with the arguments for the existence of God and the importance of religion, for those who are destitute of such beliefs; another of the series to deal with the truth of revelation, and the general claims of Christianity; a third section to prove, in a manner suited to the people of this country, that the Catholic Church is the only one true one, etc. Literature treating of these themes certainly exists; but for the most part Catholic apologetical writings handle the whole subject with only Protestant objections in view, and such writings are entirely unsuitable for those who do not believe in Christianity and who have, some of them at least, the crudest and most erroneous notions even about the root-ideas of religion at all.
The want has long been felt not only for booklets of this sort for outside readers, but also for something in the way of a text book for use in our Catholic schools - something which would fortify the Catholic layman in his tender years against the unbelief and errors which surround him, and furnish his mind with a clear knowledge of his own belief as well as a solution to the various difficulties which are raised against it. Such a work would not be precisely a text-book of moral education, though that is also badly needed. It would be a course of religious apologetics such as might supersede the catechism in the highest classes, or be added to it.
Our plan is not now to write the school text-book which is in demand, but to work out the subject in a free literary way for the use of the general public.
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