catechism

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

From Salon ● May 23, 2025

For the last several weeks he has occasionally asked an aide to read aloud his speeches and catechism lessons to spare him the effort.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

Billie Jo Medders can recite her history with Kevin McCarthy like a well-worn catechism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 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

I had recently begun catechism classes in preparation for my first communion.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

He hauls some green mattresses piled outside into a small room used for studies and catechisms, where the migrants sleep.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario