its own truth, that is, the decision about what to communicate is decreed in terms of how it is to be communicated; there is no longer any attempt to decide how a message is to be communicated in terms of what is to be communicated. The fundamental rejection of a catechism that we have witnessed in the last ten years is perhaps the plainest example of an attitude that lets the question of communication be determined by methodological praxis rather than by seeking a means of communication that is