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Catechism of the Catholic Church

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"... a compendium of all catholic doctrine regarding both faith and morals ... biblical and liturgical ... suited to the present life of Christians." - Synod fo Bishops, December 7, 1985, Enchiridion Vaticanum, vol. 9 , II, B, a, n. 4: p.1785, n. 1797.

"The [1994] Catechism of the Catholic Church is the result of very extensive collaboration; it was prepared over six years of intense work done in a spirit of complete openness and fervent zeal."

"The Catechism of the Catholic Church...is a statement of the Church's faith and of catholic doctrine, attested to or illumined by Sacred Scripture, the Apostolic Tradition, and the Church's Magisterium. I declare it to be a sure norm for teaching the faith and thus a valid and legitimate instrument for ecclesiastical communion. May it serve the renewal to which the Holy Spirit ceaselessly calls the Church of God, the Body of Christ, on her pilgimage to the undiminished light of the Kingdom!"

"The Catechism of the Catholic Church, lastly, is offered to every individual who asks us to give an account of the hope that is in us (cf. 1 Per 3:15) and who wants to know what the Catholic Church believes." - Pope John Paul II, 1992

Full text & resources here: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc/index.htm