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catechism

[kat-i-kiz-uhm] / ˈkæt ɪˌkɪz əm /


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“Through such an admission man looks squarely at the sins he is guilty of,” reads the catechism of the Catholic Church.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

He may have gone to catechism class, but he hasn't done his homework.

From Salon ● May 23, 2025

I’ve just spent a week tramping across Venice, a city of more than 250 churches, and where did I encounter the most doctrinaire catechism?

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

They described growing up attending Mass and catechism, only to stop in their early teens after being confirmed.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

Then they would put the sled away, and slip back to their bench and the catechism before their father woke up.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The conventional catechisms of art were dominated by the New York School, which Ruscha’s art held in an equivocal — and often very funny — embrace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

During the days, I recited calorie counts like catechisms and logged each mile run like a penitent prayer over a rosary bead.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2022

Secessionists complained that by 1860 generations of Northerners had been taught antislavery in their catechisms, their schoolbooks, the sermons they listened to and the speeches they heard.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2017

Coming out in Oklahoma is a conversion: its attendant testimony, catechisms, and shibboleths have weight, gravitas.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2016

He hauls some green mattresses piled outside into a small room used for studies and catechisms, where the migrants sleep.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario


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