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Thank you for that. I love the straightforward simplicity of the Baltimore Catechism. It really cuts through to the heart of things, doesn’t it? 🙂
 
jmcrae said:
Thank you for that. I love the straightforward simplicity of the Baltimore Catechism. It really cuts through to the heart of things, doesn’t it? 🙂
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Except for the absolute lack of mention of the Eastern Rites and the 6 other western forms, it’s pretty darned good… (but those forms and rites were all banned within the US by the 1st Plenary Council of Baltimore… the Pope overrode those bans… shortly AFTER the BC was written.)
 
Aramis said:
Except for the absolute lack of mention of the Eastern Rites and the 6 other western forms, it’s pretty darned good… (but those forms and rites were all banned within the US by the 1st Plenary Council of Baltimore… the Pope overrode those bans… shortly AFTER the BC was written.)
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I hadn’t realized that. I simply thought it was written to an audience of Latin-rite students and catechumens, and was avoiding complicating the issue. (I would also not have expected persons from the other Rites to be using the Baltimore Catechism for instruction - I had assumed they had their own Catechisms, suited to the norms of their own Rites.)

I am saddened that you were left out. Thanks be to God, we live in a new era. 🙂
 
jmcrae said:
I hadn’t realized that. I simply thought it was written to an audience of Latin-rite students and catechumens, and was avoiding complicating the issue. (I would also not have expected persons from the other Rites to be using the Baltimore Catechism for instruction - I had assumed they had their own Catechisms, suited to the norms of their own Rites.)

I am saddened that you were left out. Thanks be to God, we live in a new era. 🙂
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3rd Plenary made the Baltimore Catechism manditory for “… all Catholics in the United States.”

It’s at the heart of several of the US specific latinizations in the Melkite & Ruthenian churches.

Further, the “Byzantine Catechism” is the liturgy propers, vespers propers, and matins propers. It’s only been in the last 40 years or so that the byzantines felt the need to codify the faith in a formal Catechism. The Ukrainian Church is working on one. In the US, God Is With Us Publications provides an instructional series for use in Byzantine Churches (Ruthenian, Melkite, and others)…
 
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