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Previously called the Roman Catechism, The Catechism of the Council of Trent is considered by many to be the most important Catholic catechism. Although originally designed as a resource for parish priests to provide instruction, it is now used extensively by laypeople as a source of core Catholic theology. It contains the basic tenets of the Catholic faith, providing clear explanations of what...

the quickness of the human mind, that without difficulty it is enabled to penetrate the heavens, and, illumined with divine splendour, contemplates first the eternal source of light itself, and next, the things that are placed below him; so that, as the Prince of the Apostles says, we experience with the most exquisite pleasure of mind, and believing, rejoice with joy unspeakable,r that we have been called out of darkness into his marvellous light.s Justly, therefore, do the faithful profess first
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