Pope Francis on Friday met catechists and teachers at the Munyonyo shrine situated some 40 kilometres south of the Uganda capital, Kampala. In his brief address to the gathering, he encouraged them to ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said on Friday that he instituted the new ministry of catechist with the hope that it would help to “awaken this vocation.” Addressing participants in a meeting organized ...

In his apostolic letter this May creating the new ministry of catechist for the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said he wanted to recognize those who teach the faith as having a "stable form of service ...

I cannot tell you how much I have enjoyed paging through this amazing new book, written by two deacons of the LA archdiocese, called Ascend. Essentially it’s an introduction to the Catholic faith for ...

Among the estimated 20,000 pilgrims in Rome for the Jubilee of Catechists, a group of three dozen from the United States had their own private audience with Pope Leo XIV. The pilgrims -- an archbishop ...

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 ...