Catechisms
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The English Catechism of 1583
In 1567 an English priest named Fr. Vaux, at the urging of a dear friend who was a bishop,
wrote this catechism to help uneducated persons & students learn the
teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. The schism of King Henry VIII & the
heresy of Elizabeth
I had just occurred in the 16th century, and British Catholics were
becoming fewer & fewer under the cruel sword of persecution and were often
poorly instructed. His catechism was apparently successful, too, Fr. Vaux later suffering imprisonment till the end of his life
while on a mission for the Catholic Church within England, the heretical
authorities there punishing him for its dissemination --- not to mention that
his catechism was repeatedly published until the end of the 1800s (one such
reprinting being in 1583, upon which this version is based and from which it
thus gleans its title). Very thorough despite a humble goal --- and standing
firm against Protestant error where later catechisms became more & more
ambiguous or even outright heretical --- its instructions are a needed antidote
against the folly & blindness of our modern times, the era of the Great
Apostasy. I have completely updated its archaic language and translated obscure
or complex sentences & phrasings. Do you wish to know how to save your
immortal soul, my dear reader? Then examine the words of this catechism very
closely. The keys to the Kingdom
of Heaven are within!
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