"Archbishop Alfred Hughes of New Orleans, chair of the U.S. bishops' ad hoc committee for the Implementation of the Catechism, reported the results of the committee's evaluation of catechetical books at the episcopate's conference last fall. He urged that bishops in their own dioceses restrict the use of catechetical texts to those that have received the judgment of conformity by the committee... Close to two-thirds of the conformity reviews we have conducted on high school catechetical materials have ended with a judgment that the materials were not only inadequate for conformity but also could not be amended." And we wonder why a younger generation has been raised, virtually ignorant of the faith of their fathers, but for the unmerited grace of God in a chosen few. May God bless and assist Archbishop Hughes and his staff in this work so critical for our times.
