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Catechists

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Jubilee of Catechists and installs 39 people in the ministry of catechist as they kneel before him in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 28, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope tells catechists their love and witness can change lives

Cindy Wooden|Sep 28, 2025|6 Min Read

Word of God

Pope Francis confers lay ministries upon 10 people in St. Peter’s Basilica

Courtney Mares|Jan 22, 2023|4 Min Read

New catechists at the Catechist Commissioning ceremony for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Sept. 10, 2017. (Victor Alemán)

Faith

What kind of catechists do we need today?

Flor de María Luna|Sep 16, 2022|5 Min Read

A new lector receives a Bible from Pope Francis during a Mass marking Sunday of the Word of God in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Jan. 23, 2022. At the Mass, the pope formally installed women and men in the ministries of lector and catechist. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)

Pope confers ministries of lector, catechist on lay women and men

Cindy Wooden|Jan 23, 2022|4 Min Read

Abraham Luque, a catechist from the Scalabrinian Parish of Our Lady of the Perpetual Help, prays during a Christmas event at the Scalabrini welcome center in Lima, Peru, in this Dec. 16, 2018, file photo. In May 2021 formally instituted the ministry of catechist. (CNS photo/Oscar Durand)

Vatican releases text for installing catechists, explains ministry

Cindy Wooden|Dec 13, 2021|3 Min Read

Encuentro representatives from the United States meet with German Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van-Elst, delegate for catechesis at the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, at the Vatican Sept. 16, 2019. At left is Auxiliary Bishop Arturo Cepeda of Detroit. Encuentro representatives were in Rome to present findings from the Fifth National Encuentro to Pope Francis and Vatican officials (CNS photo)

New catechist ministry shows evangelization at heart of Church, U.S. leaders say

John Lavenburg|May 14, 2021|4 Min Read

Pope Francis arrives to bless a mosaic of St. Pedro Calungsod during a meeting with the Philippine community in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this Nov. 21, 2013, file photo. St. Calungsod was a lay catechist from the Philippines who was martyred in Guam in 1672. Instituting the ministry of catechist, Pope Francis pointed to the number of lay catechists declared martyrs, blesseds or saints by the church. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters)

Faith

'A long line' of holy catechists have served the church, pope notes

Cindy Wooden|May 12, 2021|2 Min Read

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