Church teaching:

A. Assessment

What's Your Score on the S.A.T. (Salvation Aptitude Test)? Noel J. Augustyn (New Oxford Review)

B. General

Catholic Catechisms *****

C. Specific topics

The Bible and the Catholic Church *****
The Bible and the "Apocrypha" (Deuterocanonical books of the Bible) [see link to "Sola Scriptura"]
Confession (also called "Penance" or "Reconciliation") ****
Contraception ****
Indulgences (Protestant and Catholics beliefs about indulgences, including definitions)
Liturgy (forms of worship) ****
Marriage (Matrimony)
Mary (Protestant and Catholic beliefs about the Blessed Virgin Mary)
Occult (demons, exorcism, Satan)
The Pope (the papacy, primacy of Peter, infallibility, etc.)
Purgatory (myths, facts, biblical data, historical roots, definitions)
Saints (prayer to saints, patron saints, etc.)
Sola Fide ("Faith Alone," the Protestant principle of justification by faith alone)
Tradition ****
Other issues (Catholic apologetics links)
Protestantism (points of agreement and difference with the Catholic Faith)

D. Books

On Being Catholic, by Thomas Howard (Amazon reviews) *****
That Strange Divine Sea: Reflections on Being a Catholic, by Christopher Derrick *****
Under the Mercy, by Sheldon Vanauken (the Episcopal convert's sequel to the best selling romance, A Severe Mercy) (ch. IX, "The English Channel") *****
Catholic and Christian: An Explanation of Commonly Misunderstood Catholic Beliefs, by Alan Schreck (Amazon reviews) *****

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