What does the Church teach about that?

Sometimes this seems like a question with more than one answer. The Catholic Church claims to possess the fullness of Christian truth, but getting to the truth on some matters of doctrine or morals can be a challengewith different popes, documents, and theologians treating them with different levels of authority and shades of meaning.

This can lead not only to personal confusion butincreasingly in our dayconflict and disagreement among Catholics.

InTeaching with Authority,Jimmy Akin shows you how to get it all straight.

Not another catechism or Catholicism for beginners book,Teaching with Authorityisnt about understanding specific teachings of the Faith (even the complicated and misunderstood ones) but rather about understandingCatholic teaching itself.Where does the Churchs teaching authority come from? How do we weigh dogmas versus practices, doctrines versus disciplines, conciliar declarations versus papal interviews? How do we sort through the many kinds of ecclesial documents and determine their relative authority and relevance?

And, in an age when accusations of heresy! fly regularly across social media, with competing sides eager to paint the other as unfaithful to Catholic tradition or to the current pope, Jimmy also tackles the issues of incredulity, apostasy, and schismshowing you how to recognize different forms of dissent and respond to them fittingly.

A unique, valuable, and long-overdue resource for all Catholics as well as those inquiring about the Faith,Teaching with Authoritywill help deepen your understanding ofwhatthe Church teaches by showing you (maybe for the first time)howandwhyandwhereit does.

400pages. Paperback.