The Deposit of Faith: What the Catholic Church Really Believes

by Eugene Kevane

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"The Deposit of
What the Catholic Church Really
Believes," by Monsignor Eugene Kevane, is a
treasure of information for teachers of catechetical instruction. In the wake
of the Heresy of Modernism, Catholics everywhere, especially parents of Catholic
children, have experienced the proliferation of new opinions, the exclusion of
the Deposit of Faith, and the suppression of the Catechism by religious
educators. This book portrays what Jesus Christ, as God, wanted the Apostles
and through them the future members of His Church to know and teach. He made it
very "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass
away (Mk. 13, 31). An earlier volume, "Jesus the Divine Teacher,"
explains how Jesus
taught; this second one presents what
he taught.

This book provides an opportunity
for all Catholics and all religious people to review their own convictions and
explore the depth of their spiritual lives. In a special way, the author
presents in this volume the knowledge and information which can help bishops,
priests, religious, catechists, parents and all the laity regain their
equilibrium and rebuild their faith and spiritual lives. It is an excellent
tool to re-examine one's own posture relative to the Deposit of Faith.

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484 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 5, 2004

About the author

Eugene Kevane on a family farm in the parish of St. Mary's, Storm Lake, Buena Vista County, Iowa. He attended a one-room country elementary school and a public high school. After college he spent four years in the seminary, including studies at the Gregorian in Rome. He was ordained as a priest for the Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa.

He earned an M.A. from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska in 1949. In 1959 he joined the faculty of the Catholic University of America, where he received a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education with a doctoral thesis later published as Augustine the Educator.

He served as Dean of the School of Education at Catholic University. Later he founded the Notre Dame Catechetical Institute in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, designed to provide an M.A. program in catechetics.