To study «how» those creedal statements filter
into Catechisms / Books of Doctrine / etc.
Nor does it transform the government
into a catechism class.
A professor of ethics at Loyola University, New Orleans, argues against the moral legitimacy of the death penalty, in agreement with statements of John Paul II that have been incorporated
into the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Step right up and see bow mere literature is magically transformed
into catechism.
But this very form of the saying shows that Jesus» words were already being used for the legal ordering of daily life, and that the proclamation of the coming Kingdom was being made over
into a catechism for continued existence in the old world.
Not exact matches
«A sound Christian attitude consists in putting oneself confidently
into the hands of Providence for whatever concerns the future,» the
Catechism says.
He knows the Vatican II documents on Scripture and the liturgy; he obviously continues to study and to refresh his insights with additional research
into the Mass and its theology as laid out in the
Catechism.
In his remarks, Francis indicated a desire to revise the
Catechism, to take
into account the development of doctrine on the death penalty.
Not long before he died, Rich had completed the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults, the
catechism course that prepares persons for reception
into the Catholic Church.
Duffy makes a point of reminding us that he is a «cradle» Catholic, raised in what many consider the narrow, provincial, and oppressive world of Irish Catholicism, where the phrase «God is love» was «thumped
into you with a stick and the penny
catechism.»
We were a group of 20 students at a mission school in Rome and by taking to the streets each week to speak and pray with the people we met, we put
into practice what we learnt from the great
Catechism of the Catholic Church and various encyclicals on mission and love: to listen and to love.
«These are the truths we all know and have known since childhood
catechism,» he says in effect, «but see what it means really to believe them; see what sort of person they should be fashioning us
into, and fashioning us
into from the inside; see what spiritual reality we should be expressing in our inner person and living out in our daily lives.»
A good starting point for any search
into traditional Catholic thinking is the old «penny»
catechism.
[22] The
Catechism of the Catholic Church provides a magisterial endorsement for this call: «According to an ancient tradition, one can distinguish between two senses of Scripture: the literal and the spiritual, the latter being subdivided
into the allegorical, moral, and anagogical senses.
Schools says, «The organic structure of the
Catechism of the Catholic Church is divided
into four parts or movements corresponding to the four fundamental aspects of our life in Christ that we see in The Acts of the Apostles.»
Roman Catholicism, long before Vatican II, began to stress
catechism, preaching and the translation of scripture
into the vernacular.
«The pervasive «Catholic atmosphere» of the colleges, the confidence of our march out of our precincts
into American national life, these would foster Catholic faith and intellectualism as effectively as ever did a drilling in apologetics and the Catholic
catechism.
But, as the Heidelberg
Catechism puts it, «no mere creature can bear the weight of God's eternal anger against sin» (Q&A, 14), and «Only those are saved who by true faith are grafted
into Christ and accept all his blessings» (Q&A, 20).
As Cardinal Ratzinger has emphasized on a number of occasions, the acute reader of the new
Catechism will recognize that the Catholic faith is there presented in a manner that has taken
into account, albeit not addressing directly, the critique advanced by the Reformation.
Its
catechism states that «one can not charge with the sin of separation those who at present are born
into these communities [that resulted from separation] and in them are brought up in the faith of Christ, and the Catholic Church accepts them with respect and affection as brothers.»
Editor: Would you say that there is a perception among some people that if you simply teach content, say directly from the
Catechism, it can be off - putting, it can be boring for people, it can make them not want to go deeper
into their faith?
It is not a
catechism thrown
into narrative, poetic, or legal form.
Their evangelistic, and discipleship /
catechism methods offer people ways
into the church that are more graduated.
The USCCB website invites us a little coyly to «Dive in deep
into the Church's teachings»: this can be done by going to one of the site's most valuable pages, which gives links to statements on marriage by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the
Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Second Vatican Council, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Pontifical Council for the Family and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
I can still remember ditching second session of Saturday
catechism on base in Wiesbaden, Germany, so that my brother and I could sneak
into the matinee.