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Monday, December 8, 2025

5 Tips for Forming Catechists’ Spirituality

DR. LORI DAHLHOFF Nurturing the spirituality of catechists is crucial to providing effective religious education. Daily meditation on Scripture Incorporate guided meditation on Scripture into meetings...

Healing and Hope for Adults after Abortion

Links to bookmark, save, and share PAT GOHN This is a most tender subject. And chances are good that many people — both women and men...

Easter Without the Exsultet (Or what I’m going to miss this year)

COLLEEN R. VERMEULEN “Stay Home. Stay Safe. Save Lives. This order takes effect on March 24, 2020 at 12:01 am, and continues through April 13,...

Faith Formation for All: Welcoming, Supporting, and Catechizing Children with Special Needs

Parents must feel that it is important for their child to know God and to have a life-long relationship with God. Perhaps what they are asking of us as catechists, then, is that we help nurture that relationship.

VBS: A Gift to Your Parish

Vacation Bible School has become a fruitful blessing to the Catholic Church in recent years. Once seen as a Protestant tradition, numerous Catholic publishers now provide informative and exciting thematic materials that celebrate great stories of the Bible and tenets of our Catholic faith. Today, most diocesan offices make recommendations for resources, and parishes can find online catalogs from their favorite publishers.

NCCL’s Virtual Conference is now $75 to register

Due to the coronavirus, COVID-19, the NCCL's in-person conference has become a two-week virtual program -- with a registration fee of just $75. Dates: May...

Assessing Needs

Planning adult faith formation SR. JANET SCHAEFFLER, OP The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time...

Advice from Master Catechists—March 2013

Master catechists answer questions from readers.

Mini-Mystagogy

How to Teach the Sacraments After Students Experience Them Jared Dees The Directory for Catechesis (DC) and other Church documents on evangelization and catechesis suggest...

The Holy Spirit in Our Lives

How to develop a connection with the best friend we never knew we had SR. BRITTANY HARRISON, FMA I could never pray to a bird, I...