In the 1950s, Fulton J. Sheen was one of the most popular television personalities in America, entrancing millions of prime-time viewers each week with his entertaining, enlightening talks on the essentials of Christianity and the moral life. Protestants and Catholics alike tuned into his program, finding there answers to the fundamental questions that all souls ask.

Relying on the same wise and lucid explanations that won the hearts of so many viewers, Archbishop Sheen here demonstrates that Christianity makes good sense — even to persons who have no religious background.

Indeed, argues Sheen, Christianity alone is able to explain the goodness we encounter in the world and the evil; it alone makes sense of our impulses to love and to sacrifice and our repeated failures to do so.

If you’re not a Christian, you’ll come away from these pages with a sure sense of why so many people are.

If you’re already Christian, you’ll come to understand your faith better, learn to explain it to others, and grow in gratitude for God’s gift of this world and for the glorious role He has called you to play in it.