Word: catechismic
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This ancient body (founded in 1562), devoted to the spread of religious teaching, did not reach the U. S. until 1903, did not hold annual meetings in the U. S. until four years ago. Last week 5,000 Catholics gathered in Hartford, Conn, for the Confraternity's Catechetical Congress...
Since 1885, U. S. Catholic children have learned by rote a "Penny Catechism" prepared by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. A new catechism, compiled by 150 U. S. theologians, was last week being scrutinized by U. S. bishops.
Readers will find here little confirmation of the notion that temperamentally the Japanese are suited to the English, the Chinese to Americans. To Madame Ichikawa, who claims the Japanese character "is like a peppercorn, small but hot," the English were the least compatible people she found. Students looked "just like...
Edward Mooney, born in Mt. Savage, Md. 55 years ago, was sent, as only the most promising Catholic youths are sent, to the North American College in Rome. Returning to the diocese of Cleveland, Father Mooney served as a professor at the Seminary of Our Lady of the Lake, later...
This was a new version. I remembered that John Eliot had translated the Bible and the catechism into the native vernacular for the convenience of his copper-skinned neighbors, but for the rest, I was only aware of the Rev. John Harvard's desire to build himself an "Institute for...