Author’s Note: this series endeavors to correct the historical record and encourage Catholic parents and educators with a sure sign of hope for the future. Part I demonstrates the public rupture in the catechetical manuscript tradition over the past sixty years, while Part II offers a critical review of the new catechism Credo within this…

During a trip to the Middle East recently, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reiterated the idea of a “two-state solution” as “the only path toward peace” even as the war in Gaza continues. Yet an independent Palestinian state established alongside the existing one of Israel, west of the Jordan River—giving both peoples their own…