Surprised by Canon Law: Volume 2.(Book review)

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Surprised by Canon Law

Volume 2

WRITTEN BY Pete Vere and Michael Trueman

PUBLISHED BY Servant Books, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-8671-6749-8, Softcover, pp. 142, $13.03 CND

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The second volume of Surprised by Canon Law stays close to the style and the strengths of the previous volume. Returning to the classic catechetical form of question and answer, the authors, Pete Vere and Michael Trueman, build on the success of their earlier effort. In their sequel, they consider more areas of Canon Law and other Church documents, and answer a host of ...

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