Catechism CLI (ccc)

A command-line tool for querying sections of the Catechism of the Catholic Church from the Vatican's website by section number.

Usage

Before using ccc you must first load a cache of where each section is located on the web.

ccc --load-cache
# or
ccc -l

Once loaded you can query any particular section by simply using the section number.

$ ccc 241
241 For this reason the apostles confess Jesus to be the Word: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God"; as "the image of the invisible God"; as the "radiance of the glory of God and the very stamp of his nature".65

Alternatively you can also specify a range of sections to query.

$ ccc 232-233
232 Christians are baptized "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"53 Before receiving the sacrament, they respond to a three-part question when asked to confess the Father, the Son and the Spirit: "I do." "The faith of all Christians rests on the Trinity."54
233 Christians are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: not in their names,55 for there is only one God, the almighty Father, his only Son and the Holy Spirit: the Most Holy Trinity.

Dependencies

The script requires the following Perl modules (all included in standard Perl distributions):

LWP::UserAgent - For HTTP requests
JSON::PP - For JSON parsing
File::Spec - For file path operations
File::HomeDir - For home directory detection
File::Path - For creating cache directory structures
Math::Base36 - For calculating the name of the HTML files

Licensing

This project is licensed under the terms & conditions of the Zlib license. See the license file for more information.