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| A very good book for those who would like to know their faith a little better (shouldn’t we all), especially as most of us did not learn as much as we should have about the faith in school. For instance below is a partial list of what children going to a Catholic school before Vatican 2 were supposed to know about their faith, with what grade they learned it in, in parenthesis. How many Catholic adults know ANY of these things now? • What is the traditional term used to describe the union of Christ's human and divine natures? (9th grade) • Which three sacraments imprint an "indelible character" on the soul of the recipient? (5th grade) • Name at least five of the 14 attributes of God. (10th grade) • True or false?: "All sins committed after baptism can be forgiven in the sacrament of penance." (5th grade) • How does the "cosmological" argument for the existence of God differ from the "teleological" argument? (College) • What are the gifts that man possessed when first created, but lost due to Adam's sin? (11th grade) • What are the four degrees of theological certitude? (10th grade) • What does it mean to say Scripture is "free from error"? (6th grade) • Explain the three-fold symbol under which papal primacy was promised to Peter. (9th grade) • What are the three conditions that constitute a mortal sin? (4th grade) • How does God employ angels in the government of the world? (4th grade) • Name the three elements which all seven sacraments have in common. (6th grade) • Name two of the four results of the Redemption. (6th grade) • Name two of the four effects of Extreme Unction which help us to attain Heaven. (5th grade) • Describe at least one aspect of (1) what the damned soul in Hell feels, and (2) what he knows. (5th grade) • Cite at least one Scripture reference evidencing each of these sacraments: (1) Confession (2) Holy Orders (3) Extreme Unction. (6th or 7th grade) • True or false?: "Christ died for all men -- including those who lived under the Old Law." (6th grade) • What are the five requirements of a good confession? (6th grade) Okay good, now I have five minutes, explain the Holy Trinity! If are serious about learning more about your faith, this is the book for you. “Good catechetical materials weren't hard to come by sixty years ago, when this book first appeared in English. Still, Catholic reviewers lavished it with praise. Why? Simply put: nothing else compressed so much sound doctrine into so brief and readable a book. Amazed scholars who translated the volume noted that this was nothing less than: "a complete treatise on all of the dogmatic truths of our religion" |
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