Category: catechists

U.S. bishops launch new approach to teaching the faith

by bcadmin | Nov 8, 2022 | Bishop Frank Caggiano, catechists, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, US bishops, USCCB, USCCB Committee on Catholic Education | 0 |

Catholic church leaders are taking a new approach to passing on the faith, saying they recognize a pressing need to do this in a way that adapts to the modern world.

To help those in hiding, catechists from Myanmar deliver food, supplies

by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2022 | Burma, catechists, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Maryknolls, Myanmar, News, Thailand | 0 |

A Catholic catechist coordinates cross-border aid to 43 separate groups of people displaced by the brutal violence that followed a 2021 military coup in Myanmar.

Love for Christ leads to sharing faith in word and deed, pope says

by bcadmin | Sep 12, 2022 | catechists, Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |

The first task of a catechist is to love the Lord and to live the faith in a way that makes others want to live it, too, Pope Francis told more than 1,400 people attending the International Congress on Catechesis.

First-ever discipleship formation day planned for catechists Sept. 17

by bcadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | Archdiocesan synod, Bill Dill, catechists, Eric Pederson, Karen Avila, Local News, Net Ministries, News, Picks, Youth ministers | 0 |

If youth ministers, catechists and other faith formation volunteers don’t have a personal relationship with Jesus, it is difficult to pass on the faith to others, said Karen Avila, a student information coordinator at a high school in southern California.

Brazilians installed as catechists say recognition strengthens their work

by bcadmin | Feb 7, 2022 | Amazon region, Brazil, catechists, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News | 0 |

Formally installing catechists and lectors into their roles as lay leaders in the church is especially important as a recognition for women and men in places like the Amazon region.

Official helps schools understand their Catholic identity makes them unique

by bcadmin | Jan 30, 2022 | catechists, Catholic education, Catholic News Service, Catholic parishes, Catholic Schools, Catholic Schools Week, Church in the US, Diocese of Brooklyn, Identity, New York, News, Teachers | 0 |

Linda Mele Dougherty said she is old enough to remember when many Catholics identified where they lived by their parish affiliation.

In Myanmar’s Kachin state, local priests carry on legacy of Columbans

by bcadmin | Jan 16, 2022 | Burma, catechists, Catholic missionaries, Catholic News Service, China, Church in Asia, civil unrest, Myanmar, News, Poverty | 0 |

Father Paul Lahpai Awng Dang, 46, grew up witnessing how violence overshadowed ethnic-majority Kachin state in northern Myanmar, just across from China’s Yunnan province.

Vatican releases text for installing catechists, explains ministry

by bcadmin | Dec 14, 2021 | catechists, Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, Latin text, News, Rite of Institution of Catechists, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Catholic men and women formally installed in the new ministry of catechists are not simply religious education teachers but are engaged in “the proclamation and transmission of the faith, carrying out this role in collaboration with the ordained ministers and under their guidance,” said a letter accompanying the Latin text of the Rite of Institution of Catechists.

Discipleship, Vocation, Formation: On Antiquum Ministerium: Instituting the Ministry of Catechist

by bcadmin | May 21, 2021 | Analysis, Antiquum Ministerium: Instituting the Ministry of Catechist, Catechesis, catechists, discipleship, Features, motu proprio, News, Pope Francis | 0 |

With the recent release of the Motu Proprio, Antiquum Ministerium: Instituting the Ministry of Catechist, Pope Francis draws our attention to the critical importance of lay discipleship and the formation of catechists in our time. […]

Pope institutes new ‘secular ministry’ of Catechist open to laymen and laywomen

by bcadmin | May 11, 2021 | Catechist, catechists, Catholic Church, motu proprio, News, Pontifical Council for New Evangelization, Pope Francis, second, Vatican | 0 |

ROME – Pope Francis on Tuesday instituted the “secular” ministry of the catechist, meant for lay men and women who feel called to help in the Catholic Church’s mission of spreading the Gospel. With the formal recognition of the many “competent catechists” who already exercise an “irreplaceable mission in the

Pope to institute formal ‘ministry of catechist’

by bcadmin | May 5, 2021 | catechists, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |

While millions of laypeople around the world are recognized as catechists in their parish or diocese, Pope Francis is preparing to formally institute the “ministry of catechist.”

Catechists must share God’s love, uphold church teaching, pope says

by bcadmin | Feb 1, 2021 | catechists, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Cei, Church in Italy, Italian bishops, Italy, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |

Religious education must focus on leading people to a personal relationship with Christ and building a community of believers where the talents of each person are valued and where all go out to share the Gospel and serve the poor, Pope Francis said.