Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.
We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.
The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.
Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.
I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.
I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.
Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.
The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. ' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof. ” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.
