Should I use the CCC or the Baltimore Cathechism?

[HomeschoolDad]

Shades of Gladys Knight: “Now let’s get right on down to the nitty gritty”.

Your trivia bit for today: Gladys Knight is a convert to Mormonism, or as they say nowadays, “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints”. They’ve always called themselves that, but a few years ago, they had a revelation that they should insist upon their whole name (with the Holy Name in larger letters), which is a mouthful:

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I have great respect for the LDS and have had some of my more pleasant moments, while traveling out West, observing their culture and partaking of their hospitality. Utah is an amazing place. It’s truly inspiring to see kids out playing in safe, modest, well-kept neighborhoods, the way it used to be everywhere. Postum is an acquired taste. Never tried fry sauce.

 

[otjm]

We are wandering far from the topic; however I have been to Utah a number of times and have some very personal acquaintances with some members. They have some very intelligent members (one I know fairly well is a surgeon who has taught surgery), and for those who are active in the church, they tend to be very involved in supporting one another. With no disrespect intended, someone in Utah once told me that if you are down on your luck and LDS - even if non-practicing - you go to the LDS church and they will move mountains to help you.

And if you are anything else, or nothing at all, you go to the Catholic Church. I have witnessed the intensity with which they approach the care for one another; in one sense it is awesome; in another, bordering on smothering. But they are very vocal about (and for the better part, practice) basic morality, something that a whole lot of Catholics could emulate - and don’t.

 

[dochawk]

Im new… what then is “Tradition” and where is it “written”?

You have it absolutely backwards: what we have written, including the Gospel, is a recording of the deposit of faith and an exercise of the teaching authority of the Catholic/Orthodox church.

 

[Canvas]

Sorry to spoil the party, but Shirley Ellis’s original version of “The Nitty Gritty” is the version that should be referenced on this thread.

 

[otjm]

And "3 6 9, the goose drank wine. the monkey chewed tobacco on the street car line…

Forgot about Shirley.

And or those not old enough to remember, that is a reference to the clap clap song.

Not that it had anything to do with HomeschoolDad’s post… but the song came out while the Baltimore Catechism still held sway.