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To: Natural Law
Why do you persist in citing the Baltimore Catechism as being the definitive expression of Catholic doctrine when it has been explained to you many, many times that the purpose of this Catechism was only to establish initial familiarization with the concepts and language of Catholicism to a juvenile audience? That was a rhetorical question because I know the answer; it is to deceive and to diminish the Church. The actual Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:

So then Catholic church gave the imprimatur to incorrect doctrine to catechize children .. how infallible of it

4,745 posted on 12/04/2010 6:10:15 PM PST by RnMomof7 (Gal 4:16 asks "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?")
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To: RnMomof7
"So then Catholic church gave the imprimatur to incorrect doctrine to catechize children."

Even though it bent your pick, the Baltimore Catechism was a simplistic introduction to the proper Catechism of the Church meant to introduce concepts and vocabulary as the foundation for later studies. You would have to be pretty stupid to think that ten and twelve year olds are ready for Aquinas' Summa Theologica or that the goofy comic book Sunday School primers used by Protestants are any less fallible.

4,749 posted on 12/04/2010 7:42:43 PM PST by Natural Law
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