{"id":2928,"date":"2006-04-20T08:46:58","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T08:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/reading-your-catechism.html"},"modified":"2006-04-20T08:46:58","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T08:46:58","slug":"reading-your-catechism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/reading-your-catechism.html","title":{"rendered":"Reading your Catechism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onionboy.typepad.com\/catholic_catechism_dialog\/\">The read-the-Catechism-in-a-year blog is going full swing, and it&#8217;s never too late to get rolling.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a previous discussion on this, some commentators remarked that the Scriptures should be read as well &#8211; that&#8217;s a part of the process of this group blog, but aside from that, I&#8217;ll just say that it&#8217;s really <em>impossible <\/em>to read the Catechism of the Catholic Church <em>without<\/em> reading Scripture as well, because the whole thing is saturated in Scripture. A full, deep reading can&#8217;t happen without a Bible at your side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The read-the-Catechism-in-a-year blog is going full swing, and it&#8217;s never too late to get rolling. In a previous discussion on this, some commentators remarked that the Scriptures should be read as well &#8211; that&#8217;s a part of the process of this group blog, but aside from that, I&#8217;ll just say that it&#8217;s really impossible to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reading your Catechism? - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/reading-your-catechism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reading your Catechism? - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The read-the-Catechism-in-a-year blog is going full swing, and it&#8217;s never too late to get rolling. 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