St. Augustine's Press
secularism, today’s Catholic teens and young adults need straight answers on their
purpose in life. What better guide than a manual featuring the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas and Pope John Paul II on who were are, presented by a world-class teacher and an experienced seminary instructor?
Where Did I Come From? Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There? is the companion book to two EWTN-TV series (twenty-six programs to be aired in the Fall of 2005, then repeated at a later time), presented by long-time Catholic legal expert and Thomas Aquinas expert Charles E. Rice, and Mount St. Mary’s Seminary instructor Theresa Farnan. It is a complete course on Catholicism, featuring concise, reader-friendly, relevant prose. Straight answers are tailored for today’s generation. Topics addressed include: Can I know anything? Can I know what God is like? How am I really in the image and likeness of God? What about my conscience? Am I a gift to others? What about my freedom? Is any sexual activity OK before marriage? Do we have to keep Grandma on a feeding tube forever?
This book adapts a wildly successful high-school curriculum developed by Charles
E. Rice, who taught for years at an Indiana high school in addition to his storied career at Notre Dame Law School. This classroom-tested curriculum has had life-changing effects. Rice’s students, who took the course in the late 1970s and early 1980s, credit this course for keeping them Catholic, while their peers turned to Zen, politics, or drugs in their search for ultimate meaning.
Rice, with the valuable assistance of co-author and philosopher Theresa Farnan,
updates this curriculum by incorporating the Catechism and the personalist philosophy of John Paul II into the timeless wisdom of the Church. Today’s teens admire the faith more than ever, but need clear answers about what it is and who they are. The straight answers found in this book are a sure antidote to the confusion of the culture of death.
Where Did I Come From? Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There? will be the object of a major promotion campaign on EWTN and elsewhere, commencing this fall.
Charles E. Rice is Professor Emeritus at Notre Dame Law School and Visiting Professor at Ave Maria School of Law. He has authored several books, including 50 Questions on the Natural Law and The Winning Side: Questions on Living the Culture of Life. He has also taught at the college and high-school levels and is now a religious-education instructor to public middleschool students.
Theresa Farnan is a pre-theology instructor and formation advisor at Mount Saint Mary's Seminary and a member of the Diocese of Harrisburg religious-education committee. She and her husband Michael have seven children.
Where Am I Going? How Do I
Get There?
Straight Answers for Young
Catholics
Edited by Ellen Rice
192 pages, 5½” x 8½”, paperbound,
$13.00 (£7.00)
ISBN: 1-58731-927-6
preface, illustrated, notes, recommended
readings, index