How to Use catechism in a Sentence

catechism

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  • They went to school to learn their catechism.
  • He taught catechism at Sunday school.
  • That's the catechism of the Church of Late-Stage Feminism.
    — Fox News, 19 Sep. 2018
  • The founding is a sort of catechism for Anton and his ilk, but that doesn’t apply to the New Right vanguard.
    — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
  • His father was a doctor and his mother taught classes on the catechism.
    — Sarah Parvini, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Acts of evil against innocent children cry out to heaven for vengeance, in the catechism’s quaint language.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • Truer, or more apt, words for the present moment were never spoken, now usable as a kind of daily catechism.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2020
  • What: Amanda Hebert returns to the habit to portray Sister, an old-school nun leading an adult catechism class.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 3 June 2017
  • Her father, who worked for the sheriff’s department, sometimes walked with her to catechism classes at the parochial school two blocks down from the stone, fortress-like St. Patrick’s church.
    — Julia Shipley, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2021
  • This is not the first change to the catechism in the direction of less tolerance for capital punishment.
    — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2018
  • There are no accounts or syllabuses of what Anna taught the van Gogh children, but she was hired to give the children singing lessons and teach them Protestant catechism.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
  • In audio, this sentence structure is repeated for roughly the length of a network sitcom, and slowly takes on the feel of mantra or catechism.
    — Giri Nathan, New York Times, 1 May 2020
  • And although Cepeda, now dead, was removed from the priesthood, Apuron still allowed him to teach catechism classes to children.
    — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2019
  • He was born in 1924, the third child of a carpenter and catechism teacher, in the Matibiri village in the Zvimba district of what was then known as Southern Rhodesia.
    — Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Just inside the kitchen door, savory smells waft with the heat — cloves, turmeric, tamarind, cinnamon, curry leaf and fenugreek: a catechism of Burmese cookery.
    — Dania Maxwell, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2022
  • Her days were spent learning the catechism and doing embroidery work to raise revenue for the order that ran the facility.
    — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
  • But the formal nature of the Catholic catechism has made any official papal pronouncement on the matter tricky.
    — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Campos, a devout Catholic in Alexandria, Va., who sang in her church choir and taught catechism classes to children in her free time, died on Nov. 30 from complications of covid-19.
    — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
  • But Trump has elevated those complaints to the level of a new catechism, and no one really thinks this is about a few billion euros.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
  • Her small family in isolation is being sustained by emails from the parish priest saying they are missed and a note from the catechism teacher sending the kids messages and prayers.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Its adherents might squabble, but their differences lead them back, eventually, to a mutual inheritance: the words of Jesus in the Gospels, the lives of the saints, the rhythms of the liturgy, the catechism of the Church.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2015
  • According to Catholic catechism, the soul of an unrepentant sinner will go to hell and suffer in eternal fire, the BBC reported.
    — Natalie Dreier, ajc, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Carole Paladino was a catechism teacher at a local church and a retired school nurse.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • This stood for the seven virtues, and just in case Sister Mary Florence never taught you catechism, those are faith, hope, charity, prudence, temperance, courage and justice.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 25 June 2019
  • The traditional show-business catechism instructs the performer to leave ’em wanting more.
    — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Francis held his audience Wednesday in his private library with around 10 priests to translate summaries of his catechism lesson, which was livestreamed.
    — Nicole Winfield, Star Tribune, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Many of the people who gathered to wave Confederate battle flags in New Orleans as monuments were being removed likely haven’t heard of the catechisms.
    — Jay Reeves, The Seattle Times, 29 May 2017
  • Gonzaga described a religious life within the church complex in Qatar that includes Masses, celebrations for Christmas and catechism classes where children are taught the basics of the faith from prayers to the sign of the cross.
    — Mariam Fam, ajc, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Belgian bishops opposed the legislation, in line with the church’s catechism, which states that causing the death of the handicapped, sick or dying to eliminate their suffering is murder.
    — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Among them was the Zuña family, who was staying at the Iglesia Matriz de Alausí, where rooms for catechism or parish meetings were adapted with bunk beds days ago after authorities declared an emergency in the area due to the risk of landslides.
    — Patricia Oleas and Cesar Olmos, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2023

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