VI. Necessary Adaptations

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

Whoever teaches must become
“all things to all men” ( I Cor
9:22), to win everyone to Christ. . . Above all, teachers must not
imagine that a single kind of soul has been entrusted to them, and that
consequently it is lawful to teach and form equally all the faithful in true
piety with one and the same method! Let them realize that some are in Christ as
newborn babes, others as adolescents, and still others as adults in full
command of their powers…. Those who are called to the ministry of preaching
must suit their words to the maturity and understanding of their hearers, as
they hand on the teaching of the mysteries of faith and the rules of moral
conduct.¹⁸

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