Catholicism East of Eden: Insights into Catholicism for the 21st Century

Richard Bennett was born into a devout Roman Catholic home in Dublin, Ireland. His early years were spent in Belvedere Jesuit School. Eight years of theological instruction for the priesthood followed under the instruction of the Dominican Order with his formal education culminating in 1964 at the Angelicum University of Rome. As a young priest, Richard (Peter) was assigned to the West Indies. He spent the next twenty-one years in Trinidad, with twenty of those years as a parish priest applying Roman Catholic teaching to everyday life. After an accident in which he nearly lost his life, Richard began to seriously study the Scriptures. After fourteen years of contrasting the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church to Biblical truth, he was convicted by the Gospel message by God's grace alone and in 1986 he formally left the Roman Catholic Church and its priesthood. Richard has since founded an evangelistic ministry called the Berean Beacon, which brings the truth of God's plan of salvation to many worldwide.Bennett, Richard is the author of 'Catholicism East of Eden: Insights into Catholicism for the 21st Century', published 2005 under ISBN 9780977422906 and ISBN 0977422909.