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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization [UNABRIDGED]
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization - UNABRIDGED Author:Thomas E., Jr. Woods Ask a college student today what he knows about the Catholic Church and his answer might come down to one word: ?corruption.? But that one word should be ?civilization.? Western civilization has given us modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of law, a sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid a... more »rt and music, philosophy grounded in reason, and innumerable other gifts we take for granted. But what is the ultimate source of these gifts? Best-selling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr., provides the answer: the Catholic Church. No institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church and in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known. Woods?s book is essential reading for recovering this lost truth.« less