These two lines tell us that a baby has been created. Indeed, they often evoke tears of happiness and maybe even a little victory dance. What’s represented by those two lines-the culmination of marital love and unity-is the fulfillment of long-held hopes and dreams. Catholic grammar school students who grew up before the council.Nowhere else on earth except on a skinny white plastic stick can two vertical lines create such immense joy. Issued by the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884 and used until at least 1962, its 421 questions and answers became ingrained in the minds of millions of U.S. In the United States the most famous of these Q&A catechisms is the Baltimore Catechism. Often these national catechisms were in a question-and-answer format, bringing to life the very meaning of the word catechism, derived from the Greek verb “to echo.” Students would, for centuries to come, repeat or echo the answers to the questions back to their teachers, who maybe hoped that the pupils would not only learn Catholic doctrine but echo the faith in their own lives. Used until 1978, it inspired, as intended, the creation of many national catechisms. In 1566 the so-called Roman Catechism was published in response to the request issued three years earlier by the Council of Trent. The creation of an official, authoritative, and authentic reference text for teaching and transmitting Catholic doctrine was not new, however. When we talk about “the catechism” today we are most likely referring to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council.įor more than a decade bishops, theologians, and other experts worked on a “compendium of all Catholic doctrine regarding both faith and morals.” The fruit of their work was the catechism, an organized presentation of the essential teachings of the Catholic Church in regards to both faith and morals, “in the light of the Second Vatican Council and the whole of the church’s tradition.”
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