Acknowledgements and Credits

Celebrating theCatechetical Year 2013 was developed as a resource by the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). It was reviewed by the committee chairman, Most Rev. David Ricken, and has been authorized for publication by the undersigned.

Msgr. Ronny Jenkins
General Secretary, USCCB

Excerpts from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, copyright © 2000, Libreria Editrice Vaticana–United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D.C. Used with permission. All rights reserved.

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Some Scripture quotations from "Encountering Christ Through an Authentic Witness of the Faith and an Ever-Greater Understanding of Its Contents" are adapted from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, 1971, and the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, and are used by permission. All rights reserved.

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