Lay apologetics group explains elements of faith with Christ the Teacher

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14 March 2004

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Lay apologetics group explains elements of faith with Christ the Teacher

By Marilyn Rodrigues

Lumen Verum, a Sydney lay apologetics group, has launched a series of books – Christ the Teacher – which explains elements of the Catholic faith.

The series, four books published on the Lumen Verum website – The Apostle’s Creed, Law and Life, The Family and Human Life and Defend the Faith, is based on scripture, documents from Church councils, papal documents and the Catechism.

Bishop Julian Porteous says it belongs to a new movement of “Catholic intellectual engagement with the currents of contemporary thought”.

It is the result of nine years’ work by Robert Haddad, Year 11 and 12 co-ordinator at St Charbel’s College, Punchbowl, who wanted to make it freely available to anyone interested in learning what the Catholic Church teaches and how its teaching has developed over time.

Although Robert finished the books in 1996, he was waiting and revising them in order to secure an imprimatur – an authoritative statement that the content is free of doctrinal and moral error.

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