Cruise Northern Europe with Catholic Answers!

SAIL THE BALTIC,
SEE NORTHERN EUROPE,
AND LEARN YOUR FAITH AND ITS HISTORY
LIKE NEVER BEFORE!

Dear Fellow Catholic:

I invite you to join me this summer on a 12-day Northern European cruise that will deepen your faith, increase your knowledge of Catholic teachings and history, and widen your circle of Catholic friends.

This will be Catholic Answers' first-ever "Christian History Cruise." On it you will learn about the Church's past, present, and possible future from top Catholic speakers (and also from me).

Your faith will be deepened immeasurably. You will learn not only what the Church teaches but why. You will see how Catholic teachings have fared throughout history (sometimes up, sometimes down), and you will get a good sense of Catholic prospects, both in Europe and in our own country.

What's more, you will come away with a whole new circle of friends who take their faith as seriously (and as joyfully) as you do.

(To go straight to our special web site about this and our other cruises, please visit http://www.catholicanswerscruise.com.)

HOW

For our Christian History Cruise we will sail on the ms Rotterdam, the flagship of the Holland America Line. This is a truly beautiful ship, recently retrofitted, very comfortable, and an ideal setting for our at-sea talks.

WHEN

Our cruise will depart London on August 21 and will end in Copenhagen on September 2.


Copenhagen

WHERE

Along the way we will visit not only the Scandinavian capitals—Oslo, Helsinki, and Stockholm—but will spend two days in St. Petersburg. We also will visit Germany, stopping at Berlin's port, and will see Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.


St. Petersburg

(For detailed information about each of these cities, please go to our special web site: http://www.catholicanswerscruise.com.)

WHO

Among the speakers will be:

1. Thomas Howard, convert to the faith and popular writer. His Evangelical Is Not Enough has brought many people into the Church—and that's just one of about a dozen books he has written.

Tom is a brilliant lecturer. Among Catholic speakers, he may be my favorite of all, so much do I appreciate his gentle wit, deep knowledge, and clarity of expression.

2. Christopher Check, executive vice president of The Rockford Institute, is an expert in Catholic history—particularly military history.

Catholic Answers recently issued his audio CD set about the all-important Battle of Lepanto. This was the 1571 battle that prevented the Turks from overrunning Europe.

Chris is a frequent contributor to This Rock.  He has written for us on Henry VIII's disastrous divorce, on Joan of Arc as military commander (and saint!), and on the heroic Cristero movement in early-twentieth-century Mexico.

3. James and Joanna Bogle live near London and are perhaps the leading orthodox Catholic lay couple in England. James leads the country's top lay-Catholic organization, and Joanna is interviewed frequently by the BBC and other media to get the "orthodox Catholic side" of major issues.

Between them, they have more than a dozen books to their credit, including the popular Come on In, It's Awful, a witty invitation to join the Catholic Church, and Heart for Europe, about the recently-beatified Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary (the last really Catholic head of state in Europe).

4. Rounding out the list of speakers is Yours Truly. (The less said about me, the better, I suppose.)

WHY

Northern Europe is not strongly Catholic today, but it once was.

1. How did it first become Catholic?

2. Why did it cease to be Catholic?

3. How can it become Catholic again?

These are the questions that will underlie not just our on-board talks but also our on-shore excursions. As we attempt to answer them, we will come to know better not only the tenets of our faith but also the thinking of those, both present and past, who have opposed Catholic teachings.

BECAUSE

Sure, there is a serious side of this cruise. But there also is the joyful side—because ours is a joyful faith.

During this cruise we will enjoy one another's company in an immensely beautiful—and historically important—part of the world. We will spend 12 days in the company of friendly people who share our faith and who want to live it well.

For most of us, after all, this will be a vacation as well as a learning experience.

I presume you intend to take a vacation this summer. Why not take it with Catholic Answers?

Many thanks for thinking of sailing with us!

Best wishes in Christ,


Karl Keating
President, Catholic Answers



Oslo

P.S. You can learn all about our Christian History Cruise—and all about the other cruises we are sponsoring in 2008—by going to http://www.catholicanswerscruise.com. You also can sign up for any of our cruises online.

If you have questions not answered by our web site, please telephone our agent, The Cruise Authority, at 800-707-1634, between 9:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. Eastern Time.


Tallinn

P.P.S. Don't forget our optional pre-cruise event in London. The dates are August 18-20. Under the guidance of Joanna Bogle we will visit Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, St. Paul's Cathedral,  the Tower of London, the Tyburn Shrine to Martyrs, and even Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park (site of many apologetics talks).

For full information on this pre-cruise event, please go to the same web site: http://www.catholicanswerscruise.com.

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