Book 2, The Profession of Faith: Chapter 1, Belief & Knowledge of How God Relates to Mankind Summary and Analysis

Here the writers begin to set out the whole matter of catholicism. The intended audience is described as primarily Church bishops who are in the position to actively teach and use the catechism extensively in their work. However it is also designed to benefit others of the Christian faith. Even so, this can also be read by people curious to know about catholicism whether they feel they do not understand the tradition despite belonging to the Church or because they want to know without necessarily going to a catholic service to find out. This way they can find out and use that information to make a reasonable determination regarding whether or not to do this...