It includes enhanced references to Veritatis Splendor and comes with the original
Catechism paragraph numbers, which are very useful for cross-referencing.
Not exact matches
The
Catechism is clear in
paragraph 2333 what my response to my sex must be: «Everyone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity.
The
Catechism goes on to quote the Council of Florence (1439 AD) in
paragraph 246: «He proceeds eternally from both as from one principle and through one spiration.»
But our first session on the opening sections of the
Catechism revealed a discourse just as sophisticated and learned as the most scholastic
paragraphs of deconstruction and cultural studies.
Comparing several
paragraphs allows the reader to see that Fr Tolhurst's intention is to make the language of the
Catechism more fluid and less academic.
... A simple formula of doctrinal assent is required... far less elaborate than adherence to every one of the Catholic
catechism's 2,865
paragraphs which the apostolic constitution envisages.
In the event this proposition was turned down - it seems by a very large majority of Bishops - and the unchanging Catholic tradition taught in
paragraph 650 of the
Catechism was upheld.
For example, in
paragraph 956 in The
Catechism of the Catholic Church we read: «Being more closely united to Christ, those who dwell in heaven fix the whole Church more firmly in holiness....
The
Catechism of Catholic Church might be seen as developing upon the seminal Vatican II statement, which it closely paraphrases in
paragraph 450, that the Church «holds that in her most benign Lord and Master can be found the key, the focal point and the goal of man, as well as of all human history.»