The strange survival value of the Catholic Church has intrigued many attentive minds that have been watching it from the outside. The Church appeared to them very different indeed from any other institution in human history.
    While the Catholic Church asserts itself to be very different, it does so in a coherent way, and has done so steadily for now two thousand years. Furthermore it claims that its difference from anything else is rooted in that greatest of all differences which is the difference of the supernatural from the merely natural. The differences of the Church are set forth as expressive of its four great notes: unity, catholicity, apostolicity, and sanctity.

By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki

ISBN 978-1-892548-24-5  •  vii + 74 pages  •  softcover