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
Immediately on his birth, he was made a catechumen; in his childhood he fell ill, and asked for baptism.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
In his old age, after earnest study, he became a Christian, but remained a long time a catechumen through fears of what his friends would say.
From Life of Saint Monica by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
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