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Article: Catechism is universal but the words are Clark's. (Catholic catechism translator Fr. Douglas K. Clark)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- August 27, 1993
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A grumbling air conditioner in the pastor's office of St. Anne's Church holds at bay the pine-scented humidity of this modest coastal Georgia town. The temperature is cool but the atmosphere is warm.
Fr. Douglas K. Clark has hardly returned to his computer before the phone rings again. An assistant to a Catholic prelate has a tactical question about the American translation of the new Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Clark, a native of Dayton, Ohio, a small-town pastor and convert to Catholicism while in college, is the sole English-language translator of the new universal catechism, the first since 1566.
The catechism, written in French, was ...