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Article: Whose orthodoxy is it? Merton gets tossed from new catechism, victim of latest round over who gets to decide what's Catholic.(Essay)(Cover Story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 11, 2005
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Nobody's right, if everybody's wrong.
--Stephen Stills
Battle lines are being drawn in the oldest prizefight of Catholicism--the quest for orthodoxy.
At stake, this time, is the first national catechism for adults--including and especially young adults--which in November 2003 enjoyed the U.S. bishops' 218-10 approval. Having endured four years, three drafts, and more than 10,000 suggested amendments, and having finally gained overwhelming support among bishops and other consultants as a solid source of information and an open invitation to explore the faith, the 456-page U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults now awaits the required Vatican ...