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Article: Flawed expectations: the reception of the catechism of the Catholic Church.
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- Catholic Insight
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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San Francisco, Ignatius Press, 1996, 180 pp., $17.95 (U.S.)
The sixties are long since gone, but the myth they generated (that rebellion is beautiful) lives on. Thus to this day heretical is mediaspeak for intelligent; a publicly expressed commitment to Law and Order puts one within hailing distance of the Reform Party and even my WordPerfect 5.1 Thesaurus gives pedestrian as a synonym for conventional.
But nowhere is radical chic more deeply entrenched than among our so-called dissenting theologians and professors of catechetics. As Msgr. Michael J. Wrenn and Kenneth D. Whitehead point out in Flawed Expectations: the Reception of the Catechism of the ...