Tired of being stumped when false claims are made about the Catholic Church? Want to be armed with knowledge that puts these mistruths to rest?

In these pages, veteran apologist Gerard Verschuuren provides thorough yet concise answers to forty of the most common -- and absurd -- lies about the Catholic Church.

With precision and charity, you'll soon be able to defend the Church when you're told that Catholics . . .

• Still live in the Dark Ages
• Reject modern ideas of justice
• Oppress women
• Oppose free speech
• Killed thousands during the Inquisition
• Take orders from the pope
• Reject science
• Worship statues and the Virgin Mary
• Added books to the Bible
• Invented purgatory
• Wrongly call priests "father"
• Celebrate pagan holidays
• Helped Hitler seize power