Paperback, 6 X 9 inches, 204 pages.

'TheCompendium,which I now present to the Universal Church, is a faithful and sure synthesis of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.It contains, in concise form, all the essential and dundamental elements of the Church's faith...I entrust this Compendium above all to the entire Church and, in particular, to evrey Christian, in order that it may awaken in the Church of the third millennium renewed zeal for evangelization and education in the faith, which ought to characterize every community in the Church and every Christian believer, regardless of age or nationality.' - Pope Benedict XVI