catechism

“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

For the last several weeks he has occasionally asked an aide to read aloud his speeches and catechism lessons to spare him the effort.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

He told me afterwards that he remembered some bits out of the penny catechism, and a sermon which was once given when there was a mission at Camelot.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

That’s where he held meetings, Bible study, coffee hour after church on Sundays, and catechisms when the church was too cold in the winter.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman