(RNS) — The latest motu proprio signals a continued, albeit timid, effort to answer a growing demand for agency from rank-and-file Catholics. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a measure aimed at promoting the ...
Among important 2021 anniversaries, the 400th anniversary of the death of St. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621), an Italian Jesuit, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, and patron saint of the catechists and ...
Pope Francis on May 11 formally created a new official ministry in the Catholic Church for those who teach the fundamentals of the faith to children and others, opening the position to "men and women ...
Pope Francis on May 11 promulgated Antiquum Ministerium, creating a formal, installed (instituted) ministry of catechist. The document was released with considerable Vatican fanfare, but many could be ...
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s liturgy office on Monday issued a rite and guidelines for the institution of lay catechists in the dioceses of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis created the lay ministry ...
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 ...
A catechist gives a reflection on Scripture at the diocesan center in Abuja, Nigeria, in this Sept. 3, 2010, file photo. Pope Francis will issue a document May 11 instituting the formal “ministry of ...
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - For three decades, March 24, the day of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, canonized on October 14, 2018, the Italian Pontifical Mission Societies ...