Irish Catholic Roots go Deep, Believe you me

What Does Sarah Palin Believe ?
By Michael Patrick Leahy
(10.22.2008; Excerpt Retrieved HERE )

CHAPTER ONE—IRISH CATHOLIC ROOTS
The six Sheeran children dutifully attended catechism
lessons provided by the Christ the King Church’s nuns in
special Saturday classes.
The nuns taught using the Baltimore Catechism, the
standard text of Catholic Doctrine that had been in place
since 1885 in the United States.
A catechism is organized in a series of question and
answer based lessons, taught by a catechist, most often a
priest, or a nun, or a properly trained lay person. In that area,
it was often a rote, singsong response, where students
memorized responses.
Every Catholic school and church in America used the
Baltimore Catechism. It had thirty-seven lessons, each
containing between ten and twenty unique questions and
answers. All told, there were four hundred and twenty one
questions and answers.
Lesson One included twelve of these questions and
answers, the first six of which Christians of every
denomination would agree form the beginning basis of faith:
1. Q. Who made the world?
A. God made the world.
2. Q. Who is God?
A. God is the Creator of heaven and earth, and of all
things.
3. Q. What is man?
A. Man is a creature composed of body and soul, and
made to the image and likeness of God.
4. Q. Is this likeness in the body or in the soul?
A. This likeness is chiefly in the soul.
5. Q. How is the soul like to God?
A. The soul is like God because it is a spirit that will never
die, and has understanding and free will.
6. Q. Why did God make you?
A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve
Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in
the next.
It was the same catechism that her daughter Sarah would
learn more than two decades later in Skagway, Alaska. These
early lessons in God’s role in creating the world would stick
with her, and form the basis for one political controversy
surrounding the evolution-creationism education issue in the
2008 Presidential election. [end of excerpt -- pp 26-27, Ch 1]

(suggested by Dr J; retrieved by Pat Darnell
at SOURCE pdf today) Thanks Dr J