“I know of none that surpasses it as a general introduction to the remarkable story of the Church for the average Catholic or non-Catholic reader,”

“A complete history, from primitive times to today, written for the general lay reader.”

“Without question the author is our best Church historian writing in English.”

“This book is a very valuable over all survey bringing to every reader, however instructed or uninstructed a good view of the succession of eras and persons and problems by which the Catholic Church has lived and changed.”