catechism

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

From Salon ● May 23, 2025

I’ve just spent a week tramping across Venice, a city of more than 250 churches, and where did I encounter the most doctrinaire catechism?

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

“But they take this little youth catechism, from a poor parish priest from the countryside, and take phrases out of context,” Fernández said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2023

Malachy is getting ready for Confirmation himself, always showing off his knowledge of the catechism, always going on about state of grace.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Luther’s catechisms, appearing with the finality and exactitude of print, “distilled Christian doctrine into concise, systematic summaries designed to define true belief.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

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

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