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Gospel, Catechesis, Catechism: Sidelights on the Catechism of the Catholic Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ratzinger, one of the key persons responsible for the compilation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, offers new insights on the catechetical character and Biblical foundation of the worldwide bestselling Catechism that has had such a positive response from ordinary Catholics across the globe. But he acknowledges that the response of many theologians and “professional religionists” has been...

The Catechism expresses this point in the following words: “No one can believe alone, just as no one can live alone. You have not given yourself faith as you have not given yourself life.”1 Paul’s description of his experience of conversion and baptism alludes to faith’s radical character: “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me” (Gal 2:20). Faith is a perishing of the mere self and precisely thus a resurrection of the true self. To believe is to become oneself through liberation from
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