catechism

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

From Salon ● May 23, 2025

She was my catechism teacher, and she paced our classroom floor while lecturing that, eons ago, all humans had belonged to the same tribe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 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

Francis quoted the catechism of the church, which teaches that L.G.B.T.Q. people should not be marginalized but instead welcomed.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

Then all the long afternoon they must sit in a row on a bench and study their catechism, until at last the sun went down and Sunday was over.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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