[OLD REGGIE]

The "Renew" adult education courses that are being used in many Catholic parishes now are based on the Catechism. They lead the students through the basic outline of the Catechism, with guides for discussion and further reading.

Excellent, and long overdue. I believe the Catechism is the single most important teaching tool of the RCC and far too few "Catholics" have any real knowledge of it.

I still stand firmly behind my claim that very, very few Catholics, especially on a relative basis, have read the Catechism.

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, you haven't provided any hard numbers -- I've at least given a ballpark figure of parishes where the catechism IS taught both to children and adults.

(FWIW, the middle school attached to our parish won the "Catholic Bowl", which is a statewide quiz sort of like a spelling or geography bee, only on the Catechism . . . )

Another point is that there are a lot of people < Nancy ahem ahem ahem Pelosi -- John ahem ahem ahem Kerry > who CALL themselves Catholics but are no more Catholic than my cat (who is Siamese hence probably a Buddhist) except as a vote-buying exercise. I don't think we should count them.