High demand for new catechism has caught booksellers unaware From: The Boston Globe | Date: June 26, 1994| Author: James L. Franklin, Globe Staff | Copyright 1994 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Catholics lined up last week to buy copies of the new, 803-page Catechism of the Catholic Church that went on sale in local bookstores for the first time.

"Our phone's been ringing off the hook, and we had a half-dozen customers waiting when we opened at 9," on the first day of sales Wednesday, said Edward Holton, book manager at Matthew F. Sheehan Co. in Boston.

There was a rush, too, at the Daughters of St. Paul Book Shop in Dedham. More than 100 copies were sold between 10 and...

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