Centuries before the Catechism of the Catholic Church was published in 1992, encouraged by the Council of Trent, a catechism was prepared called the Roman Catechism or the Catechism of the Council of Trent. It was prepared for use by Pastors to instruct their flocks in the Catholic Faith. Educated lay people should know their faith at this level, therefore this catechism is recommended for study by all Catholics. It is laid out in a far different manner than the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is laid out in a similar manner to Henry Denzinger's Enchiridion Symbolorum, which is in translation at the Sources of Catholic Dogma.

Volume 12 - GAUME Volume 3. This penultimate installment of Abbé Gaume's Catechism of Perseverance offers a compendium of Church history, presenting the earthly sojourn of the Catholic Church from the first to the eighteenth century. Written during a period heavily influenced by rationalist philosophies and the revisionist histories of secular republics, it is gratifying to find Gaume still reminding his "There is but one history, the history of Christianity, of which all national histories are only episodes. ... There is only one kingdom to which all other kingdoms refer." As the French monsignor explains, this is the only lens through which past centuries (and certainly our own time) may be rightly viewed, in order to be properly understood. Far more than names and dates, the story of the Church comes vividly to life in this volume, leaving readers with a clear understanding and conviction of the Church's supernatural mystery as the continuation of Christ's r

Volume 13 - GAUME Volume 4. This unique volume contains the final installment of Abbé Gaume's four- part Catechism of Perseverance, presenting the doctrine of the Faith through the lens of Catholic the Church's many feasts and fasts, bells and blessings, vessels and vesture, signs and symbols, and all the varied rites and ceremonies that are generally referred to as "liturgy." From the richness of the Roman Mass to the significance of various altar furnishings and other blessed objects, Abbé Gaume relates the hidden significance of each; for, "ceremonies are mysterious acts... like a thin veil that lets one have a glimpse of things purely spiritual." In this volume, readers encounter the full significance of the age-old Catholic lex orandi, lex credendi—"the law of prayer is the law of belief"—as the author reveals how Catholic worship both contains and expresses divine truth, ensuring the integrity of right faith over "At all times, external worship has be