I picked up this book hoping for a good reference when directing others who want to know more about Catholicism. What I found was not a guide but a personal agenda. This book misleads readers and twists many of the Church's teachings into personal opinion. The best thing about this book are the boxes with snippets of information, which are fairly accurate, but not worth buying this book. Readers wanting to know the true teachings of the Catholic Church would do much better with the "Catechism of the Catholic Church."