Tradivox Catholic Catechism Index Volume XVI (Baltimore)

It may be defensibly maintained that, in the United States of America, no single catechism has had a more expansive impact on Catholic religious education than A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, Prepared and Enjoined by Order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, most commonly known as “the Baltimore Catechism,” or even more simply, “the Baltimore.” The work of many hands over several years, the Baltimore Catechism has shaped the religious education of American Catholics in countless schools, parishes, and mission societies across the continent, and continues to do so today. This volume of the Tradivox collection includes the two most influential iterations of that text: the original catechism itself, unaltered as it came off the press in 1885, and Fr. Thomas Kinkead’s expanded version, published six years later “for the use of Sunday-school teachers and advanced classes.” The three Plenary Councils of Baltimore-held in 1852, 1866, and 1884-represented the first gatherings of the