DIOCESAN STRUCTURES

126 The Decree Provide sane (cf. AAS, 1935, pp. 151 if.) established the Diocesan Catechetical Office, the function of which is to supervise the entire catechetical organisation. This diocesan office should have a staff of pennons who have special competence. The extend and diversity of the problems which must be handled demand that the responsibilities be divided among a number of truly skilled people.

It is also the task of the diocesan office to promote and direct the work of those organisations (such as the parish catecheticai center, the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, and so on) which are as if were the basic cells of catechetical action.

Permanent centers for training catechists should be set up by local communities. if will thus become clear among Christian people that the work of evangelisation and the teaching of the message of salvation pertain to ail.

The Catechetical Office, therefore, which is part of the diocesan curia, is the means which the bishop as head of the community and teacher of doctrine utilises to direct and moderate ail the catechetical activities of the diocese.

No diocese can be without its own Catechefical Office.