I’ve had A Guide to the Passion: 100 Questions About The Passion of The Christ sitting on my shelf for years, but I finally decided to start reading it on Good Friday.

I think this Book is a decent primer for Catholic beliefs surrounding the Passion and a great accompaniment to the film The Passion of the Christ. The responses are accurate, concise, and are well-referenced. I appreciated that the book was designed as a starting point and had resources to continue the conversation.

My issue with the book is that it sometimes was overly simplistic, and some of the questions felt like cop-outs.

Though there were some cool insights, this book just felt a little too basic for my taste. That being said, it is certainly possible that I am not the target audience. For non-Catholic Christians and non-Christians, I think this would be a really solid tool which is why I am rating it a 4 (rather than a 3 which is my personal opinion).