Among important 2021 anniversaries, the 400th anniversary of the death of St. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621), an Italian Jesuit, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, and patron saint of the catechists and ...

Pope Francis on May 11 formally created a new official ministry in the Catholic Church for those who teach the fundamentals of the faith to children and others, opening the position to "men and women ...

Dominicans release catechetical work named Echoing the Mystery, a resource for those wishing to catechize and evangelize. Sister John Dominic Rasmussen, a foundress of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, ...

In his apostolic letter this May creating the new ministry of catechist for the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said he wanted to recognize those who teach the faith as having a "stable form of service ...

Encuentro representatives from the United States meet with German Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van-Elst, delegate for catechesis at the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, at the Vatican Sept ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the publication of the Motu Proprio "Antiquum ministerium" (= AM) with which Pope Francis establishes the ministry of catechists, Agenzia Fides has ...

At the tender age of 10, Joseph Macharia’s life quietly split into two. One moment, he was a schoolboy, playing like any other child in his village in Murang'a county. The next, he was spending months ...

Abraham Luque, a catechist from the Scalabrinian Parish of Our Lady of the Perpetual Help, prays during a Christmas event at the Scalabrini welcome center in Lima, Peru, in this Dec. 16, 2018, file ...

POPE Leo XIV hands a crucifix to newly instituted catechists Rodina Anonuevo (left) and Charlita Tabigue during Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on September 28. Pope Leo XIV commissioned 39 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Vatican has allowed the Diocese of Pasig to proceed with its inquiry into the reasons that may warrant sainthood for a lay catechist from Taguig who died of ovarian cancer in ...