Growing Up Catholic: The Commemorative Catholic Jubilee Edition: An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen, and Everyone In-Between by Mary Jane Frances Cavolina, Jeffrey Allen Joseph Stone, Maureen Anne Teresa Kelly, and Richard Glen Michael Davis is a 239-page book from 1984. It is filled with a witty, poignant, and downright hilarious potpourri of essays, lists, games, drawings, photos, and quizzes. Growing Up Catholic: The Commemorative Catholic Jubilee Edition: An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen, and Everyone In-Between is written for Catholics, who should appreciate the humor. Did you think being Catholic was funny?
Summary of Growing Up Catholic
Growing Up Catholic: The Commemorative Catholic Jubilee Edition: An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen, and Everyone In-Between was a national bestseller, with many millions of fans. The funny contents of this book are contained within the six chapters (with the subsections).
The first chapter of Growing Up Catholic: The Commemorative Catholic Jubilee Edition: An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen, and Everyone In-Between is called I am Catholic, in case of Accident, Please Call a Priest. In the following sections, The Baltimore Catechism: Basic Training for Young Catholics; Through my Fault, Through my Fault, The Problem of Sin; Bless me Father; O My God, I am Hardly Sorry; The Family that Prays Together; and Take me to the River.
The second chapter of Growing Up Catholic: The Commemorative Catholic Jubilee Edition: An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen, and Everyone In-Between is called Good Morning, Sister. It has the following sections: Lesson 3: Sister Says: Nine to Three in Holier than Thou; The May Procession; First Holy Communion; Do-It-Yourself Play Mass Kit; Soldiers of Christ; Father, What a Waste; Vocation Day: Getting the Calling; CCD vs. Parochial School: Point – Counterpoint; St. Scholatica High School; A Uniformed Girl’s Guide to Fashion; Sex Education; The Retreat; Four More Years; Meeting your Mate, Catholic Style; and Holy Roolo University.
The third chapter of Growing Up Catholic: The Commemorative Catholic Jubilee Edition: An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen, and Everyone In-Between is called Our Parochial Lives. It has these sections: The Parish as Family, We Gather in His Name, The Assembled Mulitude, and Holier Than Thou Parish Bulletin; Suffer Little Children; All Praise We Now Our God; The Mass Ordinary and Prosper; Proclaim the Good News Unto the People; Lord, I am not Wirthy to Receive You; Seek and Ye Shall Find; Tha Mass is Ended, Go In Peace; Idle Hands Are The Devil’s Plaything; The Parish Bazar; The Catholic Gateway; Items form His Catalog, and Dear Abby.
The fourth chapter of Growing Up Catholic: The Commemorative Catholic Jubilee Edition: An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen, and Everyone In-Between is called One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. It contains the following sections: Religious Fashion; What ever Happened to Father Brown; Nun of the Above; How to Encourage Religious Vocations; Miracles; Relics; The Sacraments; Holy Days of Obligation; The Holidays; Easter; Christmas; The Fallibility of Infalibility; Miracles of Faith; AProfile of John Paul II; How They Elect the Pope; and How to be a Lapsed Catholic.
The fifth chapter of Growing Up Catholic: The Commemorative Catholic Jubilee Edition: An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen, and Everyone In-Between is called Catholics at Large. It contains the following sections: Saracens, Moors, Druids, and other Non-Catholics; The Catholicism Plays a Part. Great Guilt Contest; My Turn; Non-Catholics, What They Think of Us; See no Evil; and Catholicism Plays a Part.
The sixth chapter of Growing Up Catholic: The Commemorative Catholic Jubilee Edition: An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen, and Everyone In-Between is called Infinite Thy Vast Domain. It contains the following sections: Judgement Day; Heaven; The Loss of Heaven and the Pains of Hell; Purgatory; Limbo; Your Guardian Angel; and Saints.
Conclusion
Growing Up Catholic: The Commemorative Catholic Jubilee Edition: An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen, and Everyone In-Between is a funny book from 1984 that will appeal to Catholics because the book makes fun of things Catholics know well. The book was a popular national bestseller, and is therefore recommended. This book remains popular to this day because of its humor.
