Does the catechism need edited in anyway

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Does the Catechism of the Catholic Church need updated in anyway?
 
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I’d question who on here is qualified to determine that? I don’t know of any members of the magisterium who post here.
 
I would think that more than a few bishops wouldn’t mind agreeing with some revisions. What those revisions might be I’m not sure. But how many of them might agree on the same revisions?

The capital punishment revision was in the works for decades. I don’t know if there is such a consensus on any other revisions though.
 
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So, the magisterium may have a few revisions in mind, but it is not public knowledge. I assume there has been no revisions for many years?
 
Some people believe that it needs updating, including some bishops. The words used to describe homosexuality are controversial.

I do not believe that any change is necessary.

We are Catholics, and there is no need to tone down what we believe.
 
The nuts and bolts of the catechisms have been the same over the eras.

IMO, they’ll probably more finely tune their explanation of homosexuality and human sexual relations at some point. When the sexual revolution was warming up in the early 20th century lots of people and Catholics thought the Popes were bonkers, but now their words are prophetic and I think the CC has the opportunity to bring in a lot of people fleeing from protestant denominations.

As the scale of climate change and the impact of natural disasters on humanity and especially on the poor and vulnerable becomes more dramatic and more severe over time and the bodies start to pile up, they’ll probably speak further about it and give less wiggle room to Catholics that want to be in the “manmade climate change doesn’t exist” camp.

They’ll probably edit a little talking about work, technology, and human dignity at some point since we’re coming on the Industrial Revolution phase 4 and the impact on human lives will be pretty extreme.
 
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this leads back to op’s question. if that was changed, does anything else need change?
 
They don’t ‘need’ changed, but things ‘may’ be changed.

The catechism is the go-to reference for catechists or anybody else. It’s not scripture.
 
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