Novus Ordo: Call for a multitude of catechisms tailored to suit anyone and everyone to replace Catechism of the Catholic Church?
You shouldnt be using the Vatican II one to begin with but my goodness could you imagine this? Would it surprise you? Blind "theologian"
Is the Catechism of the Catholic Church today theologically served its
purpose 25 years after its publication? By no means, says the Viennese
dogmatic theologian, Professor Jan-Heiner Tück. The catechism was
developed to combat the "loss of faith in the transformation processes
of the global modernity " and has also been used successfully worldwide
in religious education, the theologian said in a conversation with
"Kathpress". In view of the many different cultures in which
Christianity was ever inculturated each in a different way, it would be
time to develop "catechisms in the plural, which would relate to the
different cultural areas," according to Tück.
The time for this was favourable, since the theological wind had also
changed with Pope Francis: under John Paul II the fear of plurality was
overpowering even in religious questions, so that, while for example,
with the Catechism, one wanted to drive "pegs in the direction of a
certain uniformity of the Faith, Francis, with his "program of salutary
decentralization" today also theologically provides a counterpoint which
would have to be countered with the development of catechisms in the
plural.
Tück among others see the possibilities in religious education: One must
realize that religious education is often failing in terms of the
teaching of faith today: "This, of course, also depends on the fact that
religious education has pushed the catechetical dimension of the
teaching of faith very far into the background. It is not just a matter
of repeating like a theological parrot what is in the Catechism. One
take off rather from experience, on questions, on the ability to
dialogue, etc. The downside is that there is actually an evaporation of
faith in places of faith. And that is tragic. " In this situation, the
catechism could be one of several means to re-focus the passing on of
Faith.
To the extent that the Faith and a certain degree of knowledge about
faith can no longer be taken for granted, since it scarcely belongs to
the life-reality of young people, new occasions to pass on the Faith,
such as the Catechism, are needed. “This should not be misunderstood as
neo-conservative gymnastics, that lets one again learn catechism truths
like a parrot- thus no one is helped, but that one trues to translate
the central meaning of the faith, as fixed in the Creed, according to
the situation, according to the person addressed, "according to the
Viennese theologian.
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