The Catholic Church and history
Hilaire Belloc's short book, published in 1926 in a series of Catholic apologetics, has a limited and clearly stated aim: not to prove the Church's claims from history but to show that the historical arguments usually brought against them do not hold. He takes the moral objections first, that the Church has taught what history shows to be false, used forged documents or grown into something its founder never intended, and then the intellectual ones, that it is simply one religion among many with a traceable human origin. The tone is combative and compact, and the book is a fair sample of Belloc's controversial manner for readers who know him only as an essayist. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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