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This “official” enough for you?

http://www.roman-catholic-catechism.com/catholic-ten-commandments.html

That's not 'official at ALL!

This is lunacy! Did you read the Our Story section? I skimmed it and it looks like a family decided to develop a catechetical product top make teaching little ones easier. They're not a whole lot more official than I am.

And look at the sneaky way they come right out and say that what they've posted is made short so it would be easy to memorize:

Did you know that the Catholic Ten Commandments are not a direct quote from the Catholic Bible? We didn't.
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The Decalogue as seen in the Baltimore Catechism is extracted from Exodus in a concise way so as to convey the meaning of the text in an easy to memorize way.

This is obviously a site pitched to children and especially to preparation for first reconciliation around age 7 or 8, and STILL it says clearly that what they're presenting is shortened to make it easy to memorize.

Your “shortened version” stands as evidence of the subtle yet effective method the RC uses.

Ah. The evil, sneaky Catholics, cruelly depriving their second and third graders of the opportunity to memorize two versions of the ten commandments! Yes, that's it! We're warping children's minds! Stop me before I warp again!

I don't know to what group you belong, but I have to ask: is it your expectation that 7 and 8 year olds be able to understand and to recite both the Exodus and the Deuteronomy version of the Decalogue?

"This is lunacy!"

MD, you have to remember that the objective standard of truth to the anti-Catholics is anything that substantiates their contempt for Catholicism, anything.....from any source. After all, if they found it on the internet it MUST be true.

Besides, with a new Decalogue given us by Jesus (the Two Greatest Comandments plus the Eight Beatitudes) does the discussion even pass the "so what" test?

>> I don't know to what group you belong,<<

I “belong” to no fallibly organized religion. I do belong to, by God’s grace, the universal body of Christ.

>> is it your expectation that 7 and 8 year olds be able to understand and to recite both the Exodus and the Deuteronomy version of the Decalogue?<<

I certainly was expected to and did.

Perhaps this would be more “official”?

http://www.beginningcatholic.com/catholic-ten-commandments.html

Or this, which list the “Traditional Catechetical Formula”.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/command.htm