Why don’t more people talk about this? I finally had a resource that could tell me whether angels are boys or girls, why God would create the devil, and what Adam and Eve were thinking when they ate that fruit! The only thing that bothered me was that I didn’t know who wrote all of this and why I should simply accept it as true. It didn’t take me long to find a clear and concise answer to my question. To my surprise, the book was easy to navigate. My father, knowing the answer but thinking it was time for me to get over my fear of words like “ecumenical” and “inviolable,” handed me a Catechism and told me to figure it out myself. I recall wondering what the difference is between a priest and a deacon. It wasn’t until I was eight or nine did I need to personally open the work on my own. Perhaps it was the Latin that scared me away or those intimidating numbers before each paragraph, but for some reason, I always considered it too complicated a book for me to read myself. I’ll never forget the day I discovered the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC).
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