6 While not being formally identified with them, catechesis is built on a certain number of elements of the Church's pastoral mission which have a catechetical aspect, that prepare for catechesis, or spring from it. They are: the initial proclamation of the Gospel or missionary preaching to arouse faith; examination of the reasons for belief; experience of Christian living; celebration of the sacraments; integration into the ecclesial community; and apostolic and missionary witness.
There is no doubt that the Christian faith is about repentance; however, the catechetical training should not include Marian dogma. It is not apart of the Gospel to include Marian dogma. That is, the Gospel is about the imputed righteousness of Christ alone not infusion of grace. Rome acknowledges the Gospel in the Apostles Creed, but she denies it when affirming the dogmas of Mary.
7 "Catechesis is intimately bound up with the whole of the Church's life. Not only her geographical extension and numerical increase, but even more her inner growth and correspondence with God's plan depend essentially on catechesis."
Does this include Marian dogma? How was that apart of the faith during the apostles? How was a denial of imputed righteousness as a legal fiction something that was included in the Christian faith?
8 Periods of renewal in the Church are also intense moments of catechesis. In the great era of the Fathers of the Church, saintly bishops devoted an important part of their ministry to catechesis. St. Cyril of Jerusalem and St. John Chrysostom, St. Ambrose and St. Augustine, and many other Fathers wrote catechetical works that remain models for us.
These fathers of the Christian faith taught sola scriptura. They did not support the Roman dogma of Scripture and tradition as the final authority.
9 "The ministry of catechesis draws ever fresh energy from the councils. The Council of Trent is a noteworthy example of this. It gave catechesis priority in its constitutions and decrees. It lies at the origin of the Roman Catechism, which is also known by the name of that council and which is a work of the first rank as a summary of Christian teaching. . . ." The Council of Trent initiated a remarkable organization of the Church's catechesis. Thanks to the work of holy bishops and theologians such as St. Peter Canisius, St. Charles Borromeo, St. Turibius of Mongrovejo or St. Robert Bellarmine, it occasioned the publication of numerous catechisms
The Council of Trent rejects faith alone through Christ alone, but Vatican II welcomes non-Christians and the Catechism also says that Muslims are apart of the Christian faith.
10 It is therefore no surprise that catechesis in the Church has again attracted attention in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, which Pope Paul Vl considered the great catechism of modern times. The General Catechetical Directory (1971) the sessions of the Synod of Bishops devoted to evangelization (1974) and catechesis (1977), the apostolic exhortations Evangelii nuntiandi (1975) and Catechesi tradendae (1979), attest to this. The Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in 1985 asked "that a catechism or compendium of all Catholic doctrine regarding both faith and morals be composed" The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, made the Synod's wish his own, acknowledging that "this desire wholly corresponds to a real need of the universal Church and of the particular Churches." He set in motion everything needed to carry out the Synod Fathers' wish.
There is a problem because Rome adheres to things outside and contrary to the Gospel of grace and peace. That is, she believes the Marian dogmas are apart of the Gospel when they are not. Why add to the Gospel when the Bible alone offers the true Gospel? May God help Roman Catholics to see the light of imputed righteousness of Christ alone in His life and death alone as the foundation of what is most important!
