Twenty-five years after Vatican II Bishops around the world clamored for a new catechism. It was published in 1992 so that Catholics would know what to believe. The example of Jesus on the road to Emmaus provides an alternative method of helping people come to faith. Jesus listens to the concerns of the Cleopas family, he tells Bible stories and he invites them to share a celebration with him. When they come to the recognition of faith it comes from inside of them and is not something imposed from outside. The statistics of the younger generation leaving the Church should tell us that our current catechetical method is not working. What can we do to promote a faith that arises from inside one’s own experience?
