The Catechism Explained

Name: The Catechism Explained
Author: Francis Spirago, edited by Richard F. Clarke, S.J.

Francis Spirago, edited by Richard F. Clarke, S.J.

Francis Spirago's Katholischer Volkskatechismus in English, an exhaustive explanation of Catholic doctrine for preachers and catechists, edited by Fr Richard F. Clarke, S.J. (Benziger, 1899): Faith (the Creed and Christian hope), the Commandments, good works, virtue, sin and Christian perfection, and the Means of Grace (the Mass, the sacraments, indulgences, sacramentals and prayer), each point illustrated with examples and quotations.

Source: The Catechism Explained: An Exhaustive Explanation of the Catholic Religion, ed. Richard F. Clarke S.J. (New York: Benziger Brothers, 1899), via the archive.org OCR text (University of Toronto scan). Tier A: public domain in the United States (1899). The text is the OCR with systematic fixes only (running heads, hyphenation restored by dictionary, headings corrected by dictionary); the contents list, the alphabetic index and the preliminary matter are left out. The German original is not imported.