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The article is an attempt to show the most important questions concerningthe use of catechism in contemporary catechesis. Special attention isfocused on the necessity of catechism in religious education, but the authoralso describes the difficulties related to the teaching of this catechism. Thistheme is first analyzed in the light of history and catechetical documents.The first part of the reflection is a historical review of catechism containedin catechesis. In the second part the author analyzes the most important documents for catechesis and searches in them contents about the problemof catechism in catechesis: the General Catechetical Directory of 1971, theApostolic Exhortation Catechesi tradendae of 1979, the General Directoryfor Catechesis of 1997 and the Directory for Catechesis of the CatholicChurch in Poland of 2001. In the third part one finds the analyses of themost important problems concerning the use of catechism in the practiceof catechesis. The following challenges of the new evangelization are pointedout: a crisis of the faith and a problem concerning the knowledge ofChristian doctrine, tension between the knowledge of faith and the attitudeof faith, and refusal to memorize the catechism formulas.