The Faith of Our Fathers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Faith of Our Fathers, credited to James Cardinal Gibbons, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS, by JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS. The Faith of Our Fathers: A Plain Exposition and Vindication of the Church Founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ is a book published in 1876 by archbishop James Gibbons, which became a best-selling conversion manual in the United States, and by 1980 was in its 111th printing. (From the preface) “The object of this little volume is to present in a plain and practical form an exposition and vindication of the principal tenets of the Catholic Church. It was thought sufficient to devote but a brief space to such Catholic doctrines and practices as are happily admitted by Protestants, while those that are controverted by them are more elaborately elucidated……………. ……..As his chief aim has been to bring home the truths of the Catholic faith to our separated brethren, who generally accept the Scripture as the only source of authority in religious matters, he has endeavored to fortify his statements by abundant reference to the sacred text. He has thought proper, however, to add frequent quotations from the early Fathers, whose testimony, at least as witnesses of the faith of their times, must be accepted even by those who call in question their personal authority.” (Summary from Wikipedia with quotes from the preface of this volume.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Faith of Our Fathers
• Author credits: James Cardinal Gibbons
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 12:48:44

Catalogue topics

• religion
• catholic faith
• conversion
• doctrines
• dogmas

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 00 - Preface and Introduction — 14:40
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - The Blessed Trinity, The Incarnation, Etc. — 7:13
3. 02 - Chapter 2 - The Unity of the Church — 20:44
4. 03 - Chapter 3 - The Holiness of the Church — 23:09
5. 04 - Chapter 4 - Catholicity — 16:14
6. 05 - Chapter 5 - Apostolicity — 25:14
7. 06 - Chapter 6 - Perpetuity of the Church — 24:27
8. 07 - Chapter 7 - Infallible Authority of the Church — 21:07
9. 08 - Chapter 8 -The Church and the Bible — 32:29
10. 09 - Chapter 9 - The Primacy of Peter — 22:54
11. 10 - Chapter 10 - The Supremacy of the Popes — 22:07
12. 11 - Chapter 11 - Infallibility of the Popes — 26:49
13. 12 - Chapter 12 - Temporal Power of the Popes — 26:23
14. 13 - Chapter 13 - The Invocation of Saints — 20:46
15. 14 - Chapter 14, Part 1: The Blessed Virgin Mary - Is It Lawful to Honor the Blessed Virgin Mary as a Saint — 47:51
16. 15 - Chapter 14, Part 2: The Blessed Virgin Mary - Is it Lawful to Invoke Her? Is it Lawful to Imitate Her as a Model — 16:10
17. 16 - Chapter 15 - Sacred Images — 24:30
18. 17 - Chapter 16 - Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead — 28:26
19. 18 - Chapter 17 - Civil and Religious Liberty — 41:39
20. 19 - Chapter 18 - Charges of Religious Persecution — 30:41
21. 20 - Chapter 19 - Grace-The Sacraments-Original Sin-Baptism-Its Neccesity-Its Effects-Manner of Baptizing — 20:18
22. 21 - Chapter 20 - The Sacrament of Confirmation — 11:14
23. 22 - Chapter 21 - The Holy Eucharist — 23:17
24. 23 - Chapter 22 - Communion Under One Kind — 13:15

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