Letters

Small Catechisms available (letter)

Fr Edward P. Evans

Contents - Aug 2005 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Liturgy: opportunity for bishops to take control - Michael Gilchrsit What the Church can teach the secular world - Archbishp Barry Hickey News: The Church Around the World Campus Life: Cardinal Pell's program for a Catholic culture at Sydney's universities - Stephen Lawrence International poll underlines growing secularist challenge - Michael Gilchrist Media: Our Lord's name: responding to media blasphemy - Andre Van Der Linden Feminist translation: Inclusive language and the Trinity: the latest from Brisbane - Michael Apthorp Benedict XVI's pontificate: the possibilities - Damian Thompson London's Balham parish, 'an icon of liturgical hope' - Joanna Bogle John Paul II: a Jewish appreciation Anglican update: an orthodox fight-back - Fr Christopher Seton Letters: Dissenter's manifesto (letter) - Imelda Aslett Letters: Origins of the Bible (letter) - George Simpson Letters: Lay-led liturgies (letters) - M.T. Kennedy Letters: An Islamic Holland? (letter) - Henk Verhoeven Letters: Sacrifice (letter) - M.A. Ross Letters: Abortion breast cancer link (letter) - Dr Tim Coyle Letters: Real Presence (letter) - John Schmid Letters: Small Catechisms available (letter) - Fr Edward P. Evans Letters: Stem cells (letter) - Brian Harris Letters: Government review of RE in State Schools (letter) - Maureen Federico Letters: Brisbane Archbishop bans weekday Latin Mass (letter) - Tom King Letters: The Mass (letter) Letters: Appreciation from Nepal (letter) Poetry: A Heavenly Surprise Books: More Catholic Than the Pope, by Patrick Madrid and Pete Vere - Fr Glen Tattersal FSSP (reviewer) Books: More Good Reading from AD Books Reflection: How we will overcome the shortage of priests - Fr John O'Neill PP

In reference to Fr Duggan's letter (June AD2000) regarding Catholic catechisms, I would like to point out that there are several small catechisms currently available.

A brand new one prepared by Cardinal Ratzinger and Cardinal Schönborn has just been launched in Italy and is selling like hot cakes even in petrol stations. Anything written by our present Holy Father has a quick sale in Italy. Translations will follow.

In the Philippines, a small catechism published by the Daughters of St Paul is being used, while the Congregation of the Sons of Holy Mary Immaculate of Paranaque, Manila, has published My First Catechism (1996), illustrated on art paper.

In the same series, they have published My First Bible, My First History of the Catholic Church, My First Rosary, My First Way of the Cross, A Prayer Book and My First Lives of the Saints (Sons of Holy Mary Immaculate, Isabella De Rosis St, Multinational Village, 1700 Paranaque, M. Manila, Philippines, tel + 827 5506).

There is even a Catechism of the Catholic Church in Chinese produced by the Chinese Catholic Bishops' Conference (1995) which has been translated into English by the late Fr Francis Conn SJ.

Finally, I Believe: A Little Catholic Catechism by Aid to the Church in Need was reprinted in 2004. This is a magnificent little book of 205 pages, illustrated and ideal for Australia. It is available from Aid to the Church in Need, PO Box, 6245, Blacktown DC, NSW 2148, tel/fax (02) 9679-1929.

FR EDWARD P. EVANS
Braddon, ACT

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 18 No 7 (August 2005), p. 16