Baltimore catechism (Uniform Title)

nuc87-127147: Its A catechism of Christian doctrine, no. 1, 1977 (hdg. on OCL rept.: Baltimore catechism)

LC data base, 5-9-88 (hdg.: Baltimore catechism)

New Catholic encyc.: v. 2, p. 37 (The third Plenary Council of Baltimore (1884) established a committee of bishops to draw up a catechism for use in elementary religious instruction throughout the U.S.; the first edition of the so-called Baltimore Catechism appeared in April 1885; this original edition became the no. 2 catechism, no. 1 being a simplified version, and no. 3 an amplified one; in 1941 a considerably revised edition was published)

Wikipedia, Aug. 19, 2010 (Baltimore Catechism; A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, Prepared and Enjoined by Order of the Third Council of Baltimore (or, simply, the Baltimore Catechism) was the de facto standard Catholic school text in the United States from 1885 to the late 1960s. The Baltimore Catechism remained in use in nearly all Catholic schools until many moved away from catechism-based education, though it is still used up to this day in some; a modernized edition is available under the title of the New Saint Joseph Baltimore Catechism)