Volume 10, Number 1 · January 18, 1968
Storm over the Catechism
By Magdalen Goffin
A New Catechism: Catholic Faith for Adults
produced by the Higher Catechetical Institute at Nijmegen
Herder & Herder, 528 pp., $6.00
The Age of Reason followed by the Age of Science wrecked the traditional presentation of Christianity. That they failed to wreck historical Roman Catholicism until our own time was largely owing to the authoritarian nature of that Church. From the intellectual point of view, Roman Catholics lived in a game reserve which, as outside pressures mounted, gradually contracted into a zoo. Reluctantly, the Second Vatican Council unloosed the rusty bolts. Most of the animals remained bewildered and shivering behind the bars. A minority dashed out and scattered in all directions.
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