Educators told Vatican has approved National Directory for Catechesis

Published: 2005-01-11

LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Md. (CNS) -- The Vatican has approved the U.S. National Directory for Catechesis and it is scheduled to be published in May, Catholic educators were told Jan. 10 at a national symposium on the directory. The publication of the new directory will mark "a promising new moment for the church in the United States," Bishop Leonard P. Blair of Toledo, Ohio, told the gathering of about a dozen bishops and nearly 200 leaders from diocesan religious education offices across the country. Calling the new directory an important step in "the ongoing renewal of catechesis" in the United States, Bishop Donald W. Wuerl of Pittsburgh said, "It should be a time of great optimism for us." The directory, adopted by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in the summer of 2003, replaces "Sharing the Light of Faith," the catechetical directory adopted by the U.S. bishops in 1977 and approved by the Vatican in 1979.

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