Parents and You: Forging a Strong Partnership
A sure key to success as a catechist is the relationship you forge with the parents of your students. Working as partners, you and parents help the children grow in faith.
Free Miracle Bread
Do we accept that God can do anything?
SUSIE LLOYD
Jesus once fed 5,000 men with just five loaves of bread. That got their attention. The...
Catechist wins a Catholic Press Association Award for its redesign!
Happy News: Catechist magazine won 2nd place for its recent redesign at the annual Catholic Press Association (CPA) Press Awards, at the Catholic Media...
Catechizing in an Age of Scandals: Tips for being prepared
PAT GOHN, and other contributors
You are an important witness for Christ amidst Church scandals. As accounts unfold regarding the horrific sexual abuse of minors...
Engage First Communion Parents
LEISA ASLINGER
My first year as a catechetical leader was one of the most difficult of my life. For months, I dreaded answering the phone,...
Good Faith Questions Parents Can Ask Kids
By Eileen Morgan
I used to have a bumper sticker that said, “If a mother’s place is in the home why am I always in...
Keeping the Faith Incarnational (even under quarantine)
JONATHAN F. SULLIVAN
For us men and for our salvation
he came down from heaven,
and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
and became...
Parish leader: “I built it and they didn’t come.”
Sometimes, despite our best efforts, programs fail. Our great ideas are overlooked. What we think should matter to people doesn't. Rather than jumping to...
The Prophetic Power of Humanae Vitae: a 40-min. talk by Mary Eberstadt
A very interesting talk for adults by a very thorough researcher. Learn interesting statistics about "where we are" today in light of the teaching...
Cultivate Quiet Moments
BY SUSIE LLOYD
As a busy mom, my default setting is work; it goes everywhere with me. But last week I blew it. I got...
