Flawed Expectations by Whitehead & Wrenn (original) (raw)

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MONSIGNOR MICHAEL J. WRENN KENNETH D. WHITEHEAD

Flawed Expectations

The Reception of the

Catechism of the Catholic Church

IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO

To His EMINENCE
JOHN JOSEPH CARDINAL O'CONNOR, D.D., PH.D.
ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to the sacred priesthood, December 15, 1945; and in gratitude for his own commentary on the Catechism of the Catholic Church entitled A Moment of Grace.

Cover design by Roxanne Mei Lum
©1996 Ignatius Press, San Francisco
All rights reserved
ISBN 0-89870-591-6
Library of Congress catalogue number 96-83633
Printed in the United States of America

Please note the use of the page numbering system. For example 38. This number is the same as the page number in the original book. The text from the previous page number 37 (on this webpage) up to 38 is the same as the text of page 38 in the original book.

I must apologize for any typos in the text. These were not in the original book but were introduced during the scanning process which took me a vaste amount of time. In the coming months when time permits, I will try and do the necessary corrections to the book online text.

I have prepared a new corrected version of chapter 2 which can be downloaded as a PDF file and used for widespread distribution. Please use this LINK

Please click on the RED hyperlinks below to take you to the required book section.

Contents, Foreword and Preface

Chapter 1 Why the Church Needed a New Catechism

Chapter 2 How the New Catechism Came About

Chapter 3 The Initial Reception of the Catechism

Chapter 4 The English Translation of the Catechism

Chapter 5 A Catechetical Establishment Response to the Catechism

Chapter 6 A Theological Establishment Response to the Catechism

Chapter 7 Can Such Things Be?

Chapter 8 A New 'Local","Inculturated" Catechism?

Chapter 9 "What Shall We Do?" (Acts 2:37)

Appendix 1The Translation of the Catechism

Appendix 2 The Catechism in English:The Art (or Artifice?) of Translation

Appendix 3 Comparative Translations

Biographical Note

Index

This above book has been discontinued by Ignatius Press and is being reproduced with the permission of Ignatius Press and the copyright holders. It is hoped to remove typos in the coming months.

Copyright ©; Kenneth D. Whitehead and the family of the late Msgr. Michael J. Wrenn. 1996 & 2009.

Version: 10th May 2009

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