Katechismus#

Catechism, in the time of the Church Fathers the term used to describe instruction for baptism candidates, in the Middle Ages any type of religious instruction, since the 16th century a manual used for religious instruction in the church, family, and schools. The most famous catechisms were those by the Reformer Martin Luther (1529) and, in the Catholic Church, by P. Canisius (1555-1558) and R. Bellarmin (1597). The Austrian suffragan bishop C. Schoenborn played an important role in the production of a new universal "Catechism of the Catholic Church" issued by the Vatican in 1992.