A Critique of State Socialism by Mikhail Bakunin

Reminiscing those days, Ratzinger said in 2011: 'I must confess that even today it seems a miracle to me that this project was ultimately successful.' Ĭardinal Georges Cottier said he had worked on the catechism. The commission was assisted by a committee consisting of seven diocesan bishops, experts in theology and catechesis. John Paul II says that in 1986 he formed a commission composed of 12 cardinals and bishops chaired by cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (who later became Pope Benedict XVI) to prepare the first draft of the Catechism.

It must be sound doctrine suited to the present life of Christians.' The presentation of doctrine must be biblical and liturgical. The assembly participants expressed the desire that 'a catechism or compendium of all Catholic doctrine regarding both faith and morals be composed, that it might be, as it were, a point of reference for the catechisms or compendiums that are prepared in various regions. The decision to publish an official catechism was taken at the Second Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops that was convened by Pope John Paul II on 25 January 1985, to evaluate the progress of implementing the Vatican II council's goals on the 20th anniversary of its closure. It has been translated into and published in more than twenty languages worldwide. It was promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992 as a reference for the development of local catechisms and as 'useful reading for all other Christian faithful'. The Catechism of the Catholic Church ( Latin: Catechismus Catholicae Ecclesiae commonly called the Catechism or the CCC) is a reference work that summarizes the Catholic Church's doctrine.

A Critique of State Socialism by Mikhail Bakunin