Father Eduardo Hayen Cuarón, director of the weekly Presencia of the Diocese of Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), warned about 7 dangers for Catholics due to lack of formation.
In August 2022 and in your account Twitterthe Mexican priest warned that “lack of Catholic formation brings 1) lack of faith in the Eucharist, 2) forgetfulness of Confession” and “3) ignorance of the end of life.”
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Other dangers that generate the lack of formation in the faithful are “4) Not living the faith in public, 5) increase in abortion, euthanasia, free union and equal marriage; 6) the decline in fertility and 7) materialism.”
To avoid these dangers, the priest encourages all Catholics to form, specifically through catechesis.
Catechesis, explains the Catechism of the Catholic Church, has as its main mission the transmission of faith.
Numeral 5 of the document explains that “catechesis is an education in the faith of children, young people and adults, which especially includes a teaching of Christian doctrine, generally given in an organic and systematic way with a view to initiating them into the fullness of the Christian life.
In this sense, the Catechism of the Catholic Church also points out that catechesis “aims to present an organic and synthetic exposition of the essential and fundamental contents of Catholic doctrine, both on faith and morals, in the light of the Council.” Vatican II and the entire Tradition of the Church.”
For this reason, “its main sources are the Holy Scripture, the holy Fathers, the Liturgy and the Magisterium of the Church.”
You can access the Catechism of the Catholic Church at this link https://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism_sp/index_sp.html
Originally published August 10, 2022. It has been updated for republication.
Walter Sanchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.