Catechism for Filipino Catholic Book

CBCP

Catholic Bishops’ Conference
of the Philippines

Catechism
for
Filipino Catholics

New Edition
with expanded Subject Index
and Primer

ECCCE
Word & Life Publications
MANILA
Philippines

    from the beginning of the Christianization
    of the Philippines to the end of the 20th Century:

                Four Centuries of Catechesis in our Country.

                One uninterrupted effort to remain faithful
                to God,
                to Man,
                to the Church.

                One continuous endeavor
                to make the Catholic Faith relevant
                to the culture and the lives
                            of our Filipino People.

Vatican City, 6 March 1997

Prot. N. 97000707

Your Excellency,

The Episcopal Conference of the Philippines, at the appropriate time, sent to this Dicastery the Catechism for Filipino Catholics developed by the same Episcopal Conference, requesting the approval of the Holy See.

The Congregation for the Clergy, after having examined the text and obtained on the first day of March, 1997 the positive opinion (Prot. N. 64/94-03884) rendered by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, does hereby grant the requested approbation, according to the requirements of canon 775 § 2.

This Dicastery wishes to congratulate the Bishops of the Philippines for providing an instrument that is truly suitable for transmitting the faith among Catholic Filipinos and hopes that the Catechism will have the widest possible circulation.

I take this opportunity to express to Your Excellency and to the entire Episcopal Conference my sentiments of esteem and with every best wish, I remain,

Sincerely yours in Christ,

His Excellency
Most Reverend OSCAR   V.   CRUZ,   D.D.
President of the CBCP
470 General Luna Street
Intramuros, Manila 1002
P.O. Box 3601 Manila, 1099
PHILIPPINES
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