Where the Church speaks  ·  Affabel
The activity
Theology 11  ·  Bishop García Diego

Where the Church speaks

The parable of Affabel is not a Catholic document. John Bevere wrote it, and he wrote it as an allegory rather than a catechism. It is unusually good at making judgment feel real, and there is one large thing it leaves out.

What follows is the Church's own teaching on the questions the activity raises, quoted from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, retrieved from the Holy See's English text. Nothing here is paraphrased. Where a quotation is a portion of a longer paragraph it is marked excerpt, meaning the opening of a longer paragraph whose closing block quotation has been left off. Two sections at the end deal with the places where the allegory and the Catechism genuinely diverge, because a student who spots the gap and is told there isn't one will trust neither of you afterward.

Read this after you have judged, not before

This page discusses the rulings by name. If you have not yet worked through the docket, it will tell you how several of the cases end. The activity itself is careful never to do that; this page is not, because it is written for the teacher and for afterward.