Collaborate with Faith Formation Leaders
6 ways youth ministers and DREs (and others) can form mutually enriching bonds
BECKY GROTH
Being the youth minister at a parish, whether paid or volunteer,...
When You Need to Change
DRE Data brings you concrete suggestions and up-to-date information and insight about parish catechetical leadership.
Advice from a Master Catechist: Vetting Volunteers
Question: When soliciting volunteers to help with faith formation programs, what might be a respectful and noninvasive way to vet someone’s catechetical background? We...
The Inestimable Importance of Christian Families
An urgent and compelling catechetical mission
PAT GOHN
I find myself thinking of Jesus' birth, for nowhere else do I see the sublime place of families...
Advice from a Master Catechist: Beginning Family-Based Catechesis in a Parish
Question: “I’m trying to help our parish move to family-based catechesis, yet I have no experience with this kind of model. What are the...
Family-Centered Religious Education
Parish leaders share what’s working
DARIA SOCKEY
Family-centered catechetics programs — a model that has existed for some time — seems to be trending from a...
New from the Congregation on Catholic Education: “Male and Female He Created Them”
BARB SZYSZKIEWICZ
A new document from the Vatican's Congregation on Catholic Education addresses the topic of gender ideology and its challenges for Catholic educators.
Titled "Male...
5 Tips for recruiting catechists
LILLIAN CRUCES
Catechists, by virtue of their Baptism, have a right and responsibility to catechize. As catechetical leaders, we need to take this call very...
End-of-Year Inventory
Piles of Bibles. Workbooks. Boxes of pens. Stacks of papers.
Doing our Easter Duty
Michael Daley
It's not every day that you come across profound theological truths reading the sports page. Yet, this is just what happened to me...
