“This has been my dream ever since I arrived in Australia, because I saw that there was no catechetical teaching available, something that needs to be studied continually.
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“I would like to get this better material into the hands of people who are speaking to people in the pews, into the hands of people in parochial schools who are teaching biblical studies to teenagers or to little kids, and mainstream it. It hasn’t been done.
“We are always doing that. All I can say is that it is the attempt to avoid it which causes my dissatisfaction with the usual Scholastic treatment of this question. Try as I may, I cannot reconcile the notion of alternative courses with what I know of God, and I observe further down on this page of Fr Boedde
“so that it may also be available to children, to converts, and to those who join and form mixed families, whether Australians or people of other nationalities
“All the questions that may cross someone’s mind can find answers in the teaching of our faith
“This regional ecumenical theological institute offers us a special opportunity to respond to that question together in the United States and Canada. We are grateful for the World Council of Churches’ accompaniment on the journey
“I look forward with great joy and emotion to coming to blessed Canada, to having the opportunity to meet all of you in person, to visit our parishes and communities, and to journey together, in a spirit of unity, love, and mutual trust,