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The Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Recently released in Australia, the “Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church” is a valuable resource either for personal reflection or for anyone enquiring about Catholic belief. In hard copy at $12.95, it represents excellent value!
In commissioning the publication of the Compendium Pope Benedict XVI spoke of it as “a kind of vademecum which allows believers and non-believers alike to behold the entire panorama of the Catholic faith”. His comments, which give an insight into the preparation of the Compendium, are reproduced below.
MOTU PROPRIO
for the approval and publication
of
the Compendium of
the Catechism of the Catholic Church
To my Venerable Brothers the Cardinals, Patriarchs, Archbishops, Priests, Deacons, and to all the People of God.
Twenty years ago, work began on the Catechism of the Catholic Church that had been requested by the extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops held on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council.
I am filled with heartfelt thanks to the Lord God for having given the Church this Catechism, promulgated in 1992 by my venerated and beloved Predecessor, Pope John Paul II.
The great value and beauty of this gift are confirmed above all by the extensive and positive reception of the Catechism among Bishops, to whom it was primarily addressed as a sure and authentic reference text for teaching Catholic doctrine and, in particular, for formulating local catechisms. But it was also confirmed by its vast favourable reception in all segments of the People of God, who have come to know and appreciate it in more than fifty translations which to date have been published.
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