 Palazzini wrote a number of articles and books on the subject.An eminent moral theologian, Palazzini was appointed by Pope Paul VI to serve as coordinator and secretary of a commission of high-ranking cardinals to review a new and highly popular but controversial presentation of the Catholic faith which was issued by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Netherlands and was commonly referred to as the "Dutch Catechism".It was "a work which on the one hand is marked with exceptional qualities but on the other hand, because of its new opinions, from the very moment of issue disturbed not a few of the faithful."