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To: OLD REGGIE
This list would be sufficient. Thank you.

There does not need to be a list because most,if not all is contained in the Catechism so that everyone can understand it easily.

2,604 posted on 11/18/2010 4:42:45 PM PST by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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To: stfassisi

“There does not need to be a list because most,if not all is contained in the Catechism so that everyone can understand it easily.”

Yes. I have the new Catholic Catechism, all 803 pages of it. In fact, I have two of them. “Understand it easily” is not, however, a thought that leaps immediately to mind as one tries to use it. Don’t get me wrong, long and complicated things are some times necessary, and often even enjoyable to work through. But a catechism of 803 pages? Luke, who wrote the first catechism (see Luke 1:4 where the word is first used in the Christian church, albeit in verbal form rather than as a noun), accomplished infinitely more in many fewer, less (shall we say) tendentious pages.

Even the Large Catechism of Martin Luther runs to only about one tenth the size of the Catholic Catechism. Truth is usually pretty easy to state simply and briefly. His Small Catechism is less than one hundredth the size of the Catholic Catechism.


2,614 posted on 11/18/2010 5:18:38 PM PST by Belteshazzar
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To: stfassisi
This list would be sufficient. Thank you.

There does not need to be a list because most,if not all is contained in the Catechism so that everyone can understand it easily.

Easy for you to understand, almost impossible for a dummy like me.

Could I ask for your list please?

2,679 posted on 11/19/2010 9:07:48 AM PST by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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