So, um, has everyone forgotten WHO began the emphasis on Rules? It seems like most of the posters here believe a bunch of white men sitting around in fancy robes just made up a bunch of stuff to enslave people with rules designed to make them suffer. If you start by throwing out the Catechism, will you end by throwing out the tablets of Law given to Moses, too? If you don't believe God inspired His people, how can we "know" God at all? Doesn't anyone care about pleasing God anymore? This all seems to be focused on pleasing each other. The early Christians yearned for the chance to show their devotion to God through suffering and self denial. Has everyone lost the concept of sin?!