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
The catechumen could not receive baptism until after he understood something of the nature of the faith he was embracing, and was prepared to assume its obligations.
Mr Tremayne understood the drift of his catechumen.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
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