catechumen
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Later, recounting his fruitless sessions with his hopeless catechumen, Father Mowbray tells the matriarch how he tried to explain to Mottram the concept of papal infallibility:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Thereupon she called her brother to her, and that catechumen, and spoke to them, saying: Stand fast in the faith, and love you all one another; and be not offended because of our passion.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Born of heathen parents, he turned to Christ and became a catechumen.
From Time Magazine Archive
But if he has answered 'I am not;' then put this question to him, 'Are you a catechumen, or one of the faith?'
From Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy by John Delafield
In the midst of that august assembly he, the catechumen, is as a little child.
From Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
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