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The Paulist Press is also responsible for issuing Christ Among Us, a catechism by Anthony Wilhelm, a former priest. Since it was first printed in 1967, more than 1.6 million copies have been sold-166,000 of them last year-and for many of the nation's 52 million...
> The bishops agreed to a new catechetical decree to go along with the controversial Dutch Catechism, an adult study guide that the Vatican opposed after its publication in 1966 as being too free in interpreting church tenets.
In 1970, trying to correct the situation, Pope Paul VI chose conservative Adrianus Simonis as bishop of Rotterdam, stirring up a furor. Even so, two years later Paul added the more hard-line Gijsen to the hierarchy. With encouragement from the Vatican, the abrasive Gijsen set about creating a church...
Hitchcock candidly concedes that the conservatives' fight is uphill. "The liberal catechetical establishment is so entrenched that it will take ten years for any theological recovery to take hold," he says. As for liturgy, "In some dioceses you can do almost anything you want to." Yet Hitchcock, at least...
The Rev. Willem Bless, director of the Higher Catechetical Institute in Holland, expects that a compromise solution for the new catechism will finally be found, but adds, "The problem goes deeper, of course. There are certain people in Rome who would like to ban this book completely. The publication of...