The Catechism Enters the Digital Culture

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A great multimedia production that for the first time transforms the full text of the Catechism of the Catholic Church into a 25-hour film, divided into 46 half-hour episodes that take the viewer on an extraordinary journey across the five continents.

Distributed in DVD format by the SSP Publishing Group, the Videocatechism of the Catholic Church was realized by director Gjon Kolndrekaj and produced by the CrossinMedia Group in co-edition with the Vatican’s Publishing House. The fruit of 5 years of work and shot with the most advanced film technologies in 4K for a total of 800 hours in 16,000 different locations, the project involved 60,000 people throughout the world, including 3,000 readers, women and men from 200 different professions and states of life, 70 nationalities, 37 languages and 2,600 non-professional actors.

“It is an important work, above all today when catechesis is suffering,” underscored Archbishop Rino Risichella, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, the Dicastery that deals with the diffusion of the Catechism and that sponsored the initiative. Important because “it introduces the Catechism into the new digital culture and highlights the doctrinal, cultural and spiritual heritage of the Church over its more than 2000-year history.”