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Article: The Modern Catholic Encyclopedia.(Brief Article)
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- Commonweal
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- June 2, 1995
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Edited by Michael glazier and Monika Hellwig, Liturgical Press/Glazier Books, $69.95, 933 pp.
For Catholic reference books I have a very simple rule of thumb: can one find basic information that someone (like a reporter) might wish to know about the phenomena of Catholicism? Hardly a week goes by without somebody calling our department asking for a point of information. As the resident "expert" in Catholic trivia, I usually get these questions. Here are some recent topics of inquiry: angels, stigmata, apparitions, the origin of Saint Valentine's Day, Halloween, and, most recently, why Saint Joseph is often depicted holding a lily on a staff. Glazier and Hellwig have ...