Word: catechisme
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Not since 1566 has the Roman Catholic hierarchy attempted such a project: the summarizing of the church's central teachings on faith and morals in a single document. Four years in the making, a secret 434-page draft of the new Catechism for the Universal Church was sent last December...
The bishops' critique was the work of a six-member committee headed by Alabama's Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb, 58, the chairman of the bishops' doctrinal committee. (Individual U.S. bishops, like those elsewhere, will also be sending separate responses to the Vatican.) The Lipscomb panel's chief objection is that the...
Another U.S. complaint is that the English version of the Catechism seems to back away from some of the key ecumenical language adopted by the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council. While Vatican II declared that the true church of Christ "subsists" in the Roman Catholic Church, implying that there is...
Nonetheless, the official Roman Ritual still includes a rite of exorcism. The code of canon law includes rules for exorcism, specifying that only a bishop may authorize one. Rome still holds fast to belief in Satan: in a 1986 sermon, Pope John Paul insisted upon the reality of a personal...
Who really thinks about Thanksgiving? Most adults absorb the larger meaning of the holiday as part of the first-grade catechism (Pilgrims, friendly Indians, a day for offering thanks) and rarely move beyond Care-Bears sentimentality. This built-in ickiness is a pity, since it tends to overshadow the symbolic...