Msg Base:  AREA 5  - ASK FATHER            CIN ECHO   AMDG
  Msg No: 306.  Mon  6-08-92 15:56  (RECV'D)  (MAILED)
    From: Father Mateo
      To: Jane Harper
 Subject: Universal Catechism

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³ When the Universal Catechism comes out, having been written by the Bishops
³ under their magisterial authority, will it be infallible?
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Dear Jane,
 
        The 1st Vatican Council declared that "The truths of
revelation PROPOSED AS SUCH by the ordinary and general teaching
office of the Church are to be firmly held with divine and Catholic
faith" (Denzinger 1792).
 
        Certainly, parts of the Universal Catechism (which has not
yet appeared) will express such truths of revelation.  But I'm sure
that much of the Catechism will be devoted to explaining and
illustrating these truths.  So not all the Catechism will be
infallible teaching.
 
                                Sincerely in Christ,
                                        Father Mateo