Word: catechismic
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Pasqualini doesn't show any overt resentment toward his jailers in the book, either. His reaction to the first ideological supervisor he meets in the camps is typical of his later opinions of encounters with party representatives: "I was beginning to like this odd man more and more. Beneath his...
Under the tolerant eye of the now retiring Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, Dutch Catholics were long in the forefront of innovation. Generally asserting autonomy vis-à-vis Rome, in 1966 the Dutch church issued a celebrated "New Catechism," that invited reinterpretation of traditional dogma. In 1970 its national Pastoral Council went...
In the early 18th century, the question "Who rules Britain?" could be answered with a simple tautology. Britain was ruled by the ruling classes. More specifically, although swayed by commoners and clergy, it was ruled by one monarch, 25 dukes, one marquess, 81 earls, twelve viscounts and 63 barons. In...
While most scholars manage to resist the notion that Paul might have applauded selfless homosexual relationships, it seems that neither the Old Testament writers nor Paul had any conception that homosexuality might be a permanent psychic condition in an individual. The Dutch Catechism, a product of liberal Roman Catholicism with...
The Common Catechism rejects Pope Paul's 1968 decree against artificial birth control and makes a strong case for Christian social involvement. Overall, the book is a useful survey of the kind of European liberalism that has guided Protestant ecumenism and that is increasingly attractive to ecumenically minded Catholics...