The new catechism.

From: Commonweal | Date: March 12, 1993| Author: Cunningham, Lawrence S. | Copyright information

In the church, considered as a social organism, mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church has its origins in an intervention made by Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston at the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in Rome in 1985. The synod's task was to reflect on the impact of Vatican II twenty years after its closing. Cardinal Law opined that it was time for a catechism that would set out, and clearly explain, the entire body of authentic ...

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