Word: catechismic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canadian Catechism
Sir: Our offices have received many protests about "Roman Catholics from Rote to Reality" [Feb. 17] because it neglects the source of "Come to the Father." The first three years of the series originated in Quebec with a team of French Canadian authors. It was adapted into an English version...
The Paulist fathers hope that their new catechism-which has been tried out experimentally in one-third of the U.S. dioceses-will become the standard text in American Catholic schools.
Following the Baltimore Catechism, a teacher asks, "Who is God?" and the well-drilled child responds: "God is the Supreme Being, infinitely perfect, who made all things and keeps them in existence." When a teacher using Come to the Father raises the subject of God, the child looks in his...
In classes using the new catechism, children are handed paper and crayons, are encouraged to draw their own conceptions of what they learn, such as Mary Magdalen's joy on Easter when she finds Jesus living, or what the Crucifixion was like. Instructors are warned that "fear is a...