Other areas that should be included in the program are
catechetics or another form of religious education, and some form of specialized ministry, e.g., Catholic Charities, hospitals, community organizations, agencies for the handicapped, special diocesan or religious apostolates (NCCB, 1971, p.
"The Beginnings of the CCD in Europe and Its Modern Revival." In Source Book for Modern
Catechetics, edited by Michael Warren, 146-57.
As a former Director of
Catechetics for the Archdiocese of Toronto, Msgr.
There he attacks exegesis and also
catechetics massively.
(15) Unlike "the bishops of the Western European bloc," the council's African contingent did not have "the advantage of this magnificent pool of theologians and also of Scripture scholars, historians, liturgical experts and prominent promoters of lay apostolates, social concern and
catechetics." (16) Regrettable as this observation might seem at first sight, closer examination suggests that it contains a positive element in regard to the topic under consideration.
At the end of his book Griffiths spells out the implications of his thesis for the future of religious reading--questions about spirituality, liturgy,
catechetics, the various pedagogical resources that any community needs to give a "religious account." These are essential for understanding the rich textuality of human living, for obediently traversing the narrative of faith, and for stimulating the imagination to see things otherwise.
Material quoted from Archbishop Beovich's Papers, "
Catechetics and National Projects," 1958-1972, Box 374, Adelaide Catholic Archives.
As the Catholic Church
catechetics officer for almost 20 years, Cahill travelled to Catholic schools in Co Down and Co Antrim, testing primary and secondary school pupils on their knowledge of the catechism and their understanding of the Bible.
WARREN, Sourcebook for Modern
Catechetics, I, Saint Mary's Press, Winona (Minn) 1983, especialmente los textos de A.
In 1979, John Paul II in his apostolic exhortation, Catechesi Tradendae, spoke of the ecumenical dimension of
catechetics, which would apply to adult and Catholic school religious instruction, stating that, a correct and fair presentation of the other Churches and ecclesial communities that the Spirit of Christ does not refrain from using as means of salvation ...
He further insisted, in rebuttal, that the intended courses explaining Orthodox contributions to Russian culture were not lessons in
catechetics but a necessary addition to the educational background of young Russians deprived of knowledge about their heritage during the Soviet period.
The essay on Letter from an Unknown Woman goes on for many excellent pages of analysis and description--Ophuls' delicate/tough film has never before or since been in such gentle firm hands--only to fumble toward the end into out-and-out political
catechetics. Sometimes whole essays tumble this way, as does Wood writing on Martin Scorsese (in Vietnam to Reagan), despite his important (and still underappreciated) decision to target The King of Comedy as the key Scorsese text, which it could well have been in the early 1980s, if only we could remember Scorsese back that far.
In this way Reu not only fostered the mission of the church through his seminary lectures on dogmatics, homiletics,
catechetics, ethics, and virtually every other discipline in the curriculum but also by his considerable influence over Christian education in the parishes of the Iowa Synod and beyond.
It is one of his many purely theological tracts, which range in topic from creation to eschatology, from the interpretation of Scripture to the principles of fundamental theology, from ecumenism to
catechetics and the subject closest to his heart: the Eucharist and the liturgy.
"The ongoing debate [on conversion] and the atmosphere has been vitiated as a result of the court ruling," said Bishop Frank Marcus Fernando, president of the Roman Catholic bishops' national commission on
catechetics. He insisted that relations between the churches and the Buddhist leadership were good, and laid some of the responsibility for the present tension on Christian groups.
