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In the long history of the catechetical genre, texts originating from the New World occupy an understandably recent portion of the timeline. In this volume, we turn for the first time to the North American continent, reclaiming three successive forms of what came to be known as the "Quebec Catechism"--the most widely used official catechism in the Canadian provinces for nearly three centuries. The early evangelization of the Americas began in the same century as the Protestant Revolt, the Council of Trent, and major advances in mechanical printing, and it was not long before catechisms began…mehr

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In the long history of the catechetical genre, texts originating from the New World occupy an understandably recent portion of the timeline. In this volume, we turn for the first time to the North American continent, reclaiming three successive forms of what came to be known as the "Quebec Catechism"--the most widely used official catechism in the Canadian provinces for nearly three centuries. The early evangelization of the Americas began in the same century as the Protestant Revolt, the Council of Trent, and major advances in mechanical printing, and it was not long before catechisms began to appear across the oceans. In addition to bringing European catechisms from overseas, members of the various Catholic missionary orders were dedicated to producing instructive works that were adapted to the new circumstances of the foreign missions. Missionary priests especially worked tirelessly, and often in concert with native speakers, to produce multi-language catechisms that could b
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Vittorio Messori is an acclaimed Italian journalist and author. He conducted the exclusive interview with Cardinal Ratzinger, The Ratzinger Report, and also conducted the first book-length interview with Pope John Paul II, published under the pope's authorship: Crossing the Threshold of Hope. Messori is also the author of Kidnapped by the Vatican? The Unpublished Memoirs of Edgardo Mortara