[ImaGraftedBranch]

Interested in your thoughts, Pio.

[26lemoncharlie]

Here's my thoughts:

http://www.stthomasaquinas.net/sede.html

[Pio]

This new catechism absoluetly matches the CCD program in my town parish: Blest Are We (www.blestarewe.com) as far as emphasizing Dorothy Day, Bernadin and Cesar Chavez that's the first thing I noticed...funny..very funny in a weird sense..

I'd love to read the US Bishops version as well as the Vatican approved edition.

My suspicion is that it will be highly Lutheran..emphasizing social issues (except abortion..i.e. baby murder), the mass as a thanksgiving community meal..etc etc etc ...

[Pio]

"The official theological definition of a sacrament - 'an outward sign instituted by Christ to give us grace' - may perplex the average college student. The United States Catechism for Young Adults explains it in familiar terms. "

Now that I have thought a bit longer on it...this sentence tells me that this catechism is going to be way dumbed down almost to the point of being offensive.

Granted, the current CCC is a bit academic...but this is a bad omen that it will reflect the pedagogy that always comes from liberals...dumbed down crap.