catechism

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?

For the last several weeks he has occasionally asked an aide to read aloud his speeches and catechism lessons to spare him the effort.

But he had an aide read his catechism lesson, as he has done for the past several days.

The 33-year-old Beladzed, who taught the catechism at the city’s Cathedral of the Holy Name of the Saint Virgin Mary, stands accused under four articles of Belarus’ criminal code, including “insulting the president” and “inciting social discord.”

Either way, there he was, clutching a jersey alongside Nasser al-Khelaifi, P.S.G.’s chairman, repeating the catechism that he could never leave his team, his city, his country so often that, by the time the news conference was over, Mbappé probably believed it, too.