!!!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 16%%sup th/%  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.


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