Katechizm Kościoła katolickiego

Abstract

After 426 years since publication of the Roman Catechism in 1992 John Paul II made presentation of a new catechism - the Catechism of the Catholic Church. According to the pope’s words it is the essential document for the union of the Church. A term "catechism" originates from Greek and refers to the oval teaching. Today a word "catechism" means a textbook being a base of Christian teaching. In its rudiments the catechism comprised a set of questions and anserws for the preparing to the baptism. Over the years a form of catechisms has changed. The Tridental catechism was to be a didactic help in catechesal and preaching’s foretelling. Lately the need of one catechism for the whole common Church was perceived by the IInd extraordinary Synod of Bishops in 1975. A special board began working on the catechism. A presented project of the catechism was strongly criticized by mass media. From among of non-Christian circles Jews most criticized same statements of the catechism. Reservations of other circles concerned mainly the name, hierarchy of value, use of the Bible, ethics and ecclesiology. Anserws to the presented objections were made by a cardinal J. Ratzinger. The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains the cental points of Christian doctrine: the original sin, Incarnation, Mother’s Virginity, Jesus and Izrael, death and descent to the limbo, Resurrection, Church and Kingdom, the last times.