Word: catechismic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Generally, Catholic educators have relied on religious texts based on the 1884 Baltimore Catechism - a turgid compendium of factual questions and answers that the student was expected to learn by role. Last week the Paulist fathers introduced a new catechism that puts dogma in language that children, rather than theologians...
The new catechism series, called Come to the Father, is colorfully illustrated, avoids flat doctrinal pronouncements. The accompanying manual for teachers advises: "We do not tell the children that God is this or that, but we show them what God does. It is not a question of flooding them with...
Even in the realm of religion, the Yugoslavs are breaking fresh Communist ground. Hard on the heels of the conviction and sentencing of Poet Vladimir Gajsek for "provoking religious intolerance," Belgrade and the Vatican announced that this month they will sign an agreement according new freedom to the Yugoslav Roman...
"Say Your Catechism." There were other hints of malaise. Some Southern- ers feared that the Johnson Administration's enforcement of civil rights laws would prompt renewed defections to the G.O.P. Others thought that voter apathy would be the Democrats' biggest problem this year. Moreover, the National Committee headquarters...
Johnson and Humphrey belittled the threat of mid-term congressional losses, which the party in power traditionally suffers. "Our men don't know where some get this information that there is going to be any great difficulty this year," the President told reporters. "I guess it must be the...