Fifty Years In the Church of Rome

The is an excellent look at the religious system of the Catholic Church from the inside. Charles Chiniquy was born at Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada of Roman Catholic parents . He studied at the college of Nicolet, Canada, professor of belles-lettres, after graduation he entered the priesthood at an early age and continued therein until he was an old man. At the age of 49 he left the Roman church taking his congregation with him and became a Prysbyterian minister. His encounters with the inter workings of the of the Roman church are so enlightening that it could only come from someone who was embedded in such a system for so many years. He later published a number of books and tracts on temperance and about his life and experiences in the Catholic church, of which some became very popular and were translated into several languages. In this book he covers such subjects as, ?The Bible and the Priest of Rome, ?Preparation for the First Communion- Initiation to Idolatry, and much more.