There is a flip side to the good Catholic efforts in catechesis:
30. It is necessary, however, to examine with particular
attention some problems so as to identify their solutions: – the
first concerns the conception of catechesis as a school of
faith, an initiation and apprenticeship in the entire Christian
life of which catechists do not yet have a full understanding. –
with regard to the fundamental direction of catechesis,
catechetical activity is still usually impregnated with the idea
of ‘Revelation’: however, the conciliar concept of ‘Tradition’
is much less influential as an inspiration for catechesis: in
much catechesis, indeed, reference to Sacred Scripture is
virtually exclusive and unaccompanied by sufficient reference to
the Church’s long experience and reflection,(Cf. Catechesi
Tradendae 27b) acquired in the course of her two-thousand-year
history. The ecclesial nature of catechesis, in this case,
appears less clearly; the inter-relation of Sacred Scripture,
Tradition and the Magisterium, each a