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The Catechism of a Catholic Church Latin: Catechismus Catholicae Ecclesiae; commonly called a Catechism or the CCC is a catechism promulgated for the Catholic Church by Pope John Paul II in 1992. It aims to summarize, in book form, the leading beliefs of the Catholic Church.
In 1992, cardinal Joseph Ratzinger later Pope Benedict XVI stated:
[The Catechism of the Catholic Church] clearly show[s] that the problem of what we must score as human beings, of how we should constitute our lives so that we together with the world may become just, is the essential problem of our day, and basically of any ages. After the fall of ideologies, the problem of man—the moral problem—is featured to today's context in a totally new way: What should we do? How does life become just? What can supply us and the whole world a future which is worth living? Since the catechism treats these questions, it is for a book which interests many people, far beyond purely theological or ecclesial circles.
Ulf Ekman, former Charismatic pastor and the founder of Livets Ord, says that the Catechism is "the best book he has ever read".