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Posted on 05/31/2013 2:44:05 PM PDT by NYer
Start here ... Baltimore Catechism No. 1 - still the best!
Maybe you might want to ask Catholic kids to read the Bible. It’s a radical idea, I know, but still...
True.
Studying the Bible instead of dull text books would probably work out better. Of course, they’d probably come out not being Catholic though, but that’s fine with Christ.
The children read the Bible; the catechism explains it.
Why do you think it’s radical for Catholic kids to read the bible? That’s not my experience, that’s not my family’s experience, nor my parish’s. Do you have some inside information we don’t know about?
Most of us can’t read or understand Latin?
Great post, Mr Empire State. Love the book - great teaching tool - love the commentary by this excellent priest. Heck, I even love the Drive-By Protestors mouthing the centuries’-old distorions of the one true Church
I would rather have it taught to them first. Handing an 8 year old kid a Bible and saying, “Here read this and figure it out on your own,” isn’t really a helpful idea.
First, their parents should be catechized so that with the aid of the parish priest, teachers at their school, catechists at their parish, and most importantly the parents in the home can teach the Bible to the child through regular study, lectio divina and prayer.
If so, I have a request ...
Blame it on poor CCD teaching.
>>Why do you think it’s radical for Catholic kids to read the Bible?<<
I don’t think it’s radical at all. But I’ve been shouted down by some catholics for suggesting it.
As best I can gather, these people think that the Bible needs to be explained by professional clergy much the same way Tom Brokaw says the media should ‘filter’ the news for us.
I think God can speak for Himself.
Because many pastors abrogate their responsibility to teach from the pulpit in favor of the touchy-feely feelgood aspects of liberal catholicism. I attended a “Mass” last week while travelling in California that was a total joke. I would have tried to find another Mass if I hadn’t been leaving.
So, in your Protestant sunday school classes you just hand the kids the Bible and walk out of the room?
I grew up in the Catholic faith... I read the Bible as a Catholic... loved church... as a young adult I became a Protestant... it was not until I began homeschooling my sons, trying to give them a classical education, learning Latin, studying classical literature and history... studying the writings of Thomas Aquinas, Augustin, Bonaventure and others, appreciating classical art and music, did I truly begin to understand Catholicism... I have yet to come back to the Catholic faith, but I am drawn to it... my sons and I do attend mass on occasion... especially during lent... I get so much more out of the Catholic church during that time of the year than any non-denominational Protestant church I have ever attended...
and that's why there is uniformity of belief among all of the Protestant denominations put there.
I will read this... thank you...
One word - well, two word - answer: Vatican II.
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