Acknowledgements and Credits

Celebrating the Catechetical Year  2010 was developed as a resource by the Committee on Evangelization and  Catechesis of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). It was  reviewed by the committee chairman, Most Rev. Richard J. Malone, and has been  authorized for publication by the undersigned.

Msgr. David J. Malloy
General Secretary, USCCB   

Excerpts from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, second  edition, copyright © 2000, Libreria Editrice Vaticana–United States Conference  of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D.C. Used with permission. All rights  reserved.

Scripture texts used in this work  are taken from the New American Bible,   copyright © 1991, 1986, and 1970 by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine,  Washington, DC 20017 and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All  rights reserved.

Excerpts from Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents edited by Austin Flannery, OP, copyright © 1975, Costello Publishing Company,  Inc., Northport, NY, are used with permission of the publisher, all rights  reserved. No part of these excerpts may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval  system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical,  photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without express written permission of  Costello Publishing Company.

Excerpts from the Rite  of Marriage copyright © 1969, International  Commission on English in the Liturgy. Used with permission. All rights  reserved.

Quotations from Code  of Canon Law: Latin-English Edition: New English Translation (Codex Iuris Canonici [CIC]) copyright Ó  1998, Canon Law Society of America, Washington, DC. Used with permission. All  rights reserved.

Excerpts from Pope John Paul II, The Theology of Marriage and Celibacy: Catechesis on Marriage and  Celibacy in the Light of the Resurrection of the Body, copyright © 1986,  Libreria Editrice Vaticana (LEV); excerpts from Pope John Paul II, On the Family (Familiaris Consortio) © 1982, LEV; excerpts from Pope Benedict XVI, God Is Love (Deus Caritas Est) © 2005, LEV; excerpts from Pope Paul VI, On the Regulation of Birth (Humanae Vitae) © 1968, LEV; excerpts  from Pope Benedict XVI, On Christian Hope (Spe Salvi) © 2007, LEV; excerpts  from Pope Benedict XVI, Welcome ceremony at Manises Airport, Valencia, Spain, ©  2006, LEV; excerpts from Pope Benedict XVI, Charity  in Truth (Caritas in Veritate) ©  2009, LEV. Used with permission. All rights reserved.