Word: catechismic
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Now in an attractive paperback edition, the Catechism of the Catholic Church has been experiencing popularity among Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike. It's a kind of owner's manual for those who call the Catholic faith their own, a definitive statement of Catholic belief. At $19.95, some might...
Prepared following the Second Vatican Council the Catechism comments on both essential tenets and recent "hot" issues. In intelligent, concise and well-written prose, the Church reaffirms its opposition to homosexual acts (not homosexuals--there's a difference). It explains its continued opposition to abortion. It maintains the prohibition on...
The Catechism's stances on these issues are probably the ones that would draw the most fire from Harvard liberals. These students have the right to their own opinions and to religious freedom. If they aren't Catholic, they're free to condemn these statements until they turn blue in...
The Catechism explains: "The task of giving an authentic interpretation of the Word of God, whether in its written form or in the form of Tradition, has been entrusted to the living, teaching office of the Church alone" (emphasis added). What kind of Catholic would assert that his own conscience...
Sacred texts are racing through cyberspace at speeds that trouble the more gently paced Roman Catholic Church bureaucracy. When CRNET, a Virginia-based Catholic dial-up network, put the new Catholic catechism online this month, fearful editors had to yank it after a few hours. The reason: the U.S. Catholic...