catechism

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

From Salon ● May 23, 2025

But there’s an attitude, a worldview and a fundamental set of principles that guide the tech industry and its progeny, like a secular catechism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2025

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

He began asking his questions in a low, expressionless voice, as though this were a routine, a sort of catechism, most of whose answers were known to him already.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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