Word: catechismal
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More interesting than the whodunit part of Fuller's play is the "Who the hell was he?" aspect in which Waters' complex character is explored. Waters has tried to scour himself to whiteness through discipline and excellence. He is a martinet who addresses his recruits as "shiftless lazy...
Sister Mary Ignatius (Elizabeth Franz) has taught for many years at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow school. She believes that to spare the rod is to spoil the child, perhaps eternally. Her rod is the catechism. Her prize pupil (Mark Stefan) can make pinpoint distinctions between venial and mortal sins...
One of the lessons of a Soviet education is that while one must know the Marxist-Leninist catechism, and party membership is a great asset, being a true believer is not necessary; it may even be a disadvantage in a society where power enjoys more respect and earns more reward...
> 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.
Dutch bishops began publishing a new adult catechism, suspect in Rome because it sidestepped such teachings as the Virgin birth. Ecumenically minded parishes countenanced intercommunion with Protestants. Priests who quit to get married were retained on seminary faculties or continued, without episcopal approval, to function as parish ministers. Laymen and...