catechism

They had the cadence of a catechism, and evolved into a set of rules recited like a prayer by Yamel, her brother and their aunt around the kitchen table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

He may have gone to catechism class, but he hasn't done his homework.

From Salon ● May 23, 2025

“Now even young parents are hard to engage. They bring kids to the doorway for catechism, but don’t cross it for Mass.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

When she was just 4 years old, Quintanilla recited creeds — statements of belief — at her grandmother’s catechism classes in church.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023

After letting Tomas know we were leaving, I drove Adria and myself to church for catechism class.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

The conventional catechisms of art were dominated by the New York School, which Ruscha’s art held in an equivocal — and often very funny — embrace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

During the days, I recited calorie counts like catechisms and logged each mile run like a penitent prayer over a rosary bead.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2022

Secessionists complained that by 1860 generations of Northerners had been taught antislavery in their catechisms, their schoolbooks, the sermons they listened to and the speeches they heard.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2017

Coming out in Oklahoma is a conversion: its attendant testimony, catechisms, and shibboleths have weight, gravitas.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2016

That’s where he held meetings, Bible study, coffee hour after church on Sundays, and catechisms when the church was too cold in the winter.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman