Letter
Letter to Catechetical Publishers on Revised Texts (2013)
Letter from Bishop Leonard P. Blair to Catechetical Publishers on Revised Texts, September 27, 2013
As the Subcommittee on the Catechism worked to monitor, to refine, and hopefully to improve the review process for catechetical materials, the bishops reconsidered their current practices regarding revised editions of texts that were previously declared to be in conformity with the Catechism.
Having heard from publishers at a meeting on September 5, 2013, the Subcommittee decided on the following policy:
Revised texts submitted for a conformity review will be treated as revisions only if the last full conformity review of the text was conducted no longer than seven years ago. If it has been longer than seven years since the full review, then the revised text will be reviewed as a new text with a full review. If less than seven years, then only the new content in the revision will be reviewed for authenticity, not completeness.