catechumen

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Later, recounting his fruitless sessions with his hopeless catechumen, Father Mowbray tells the matriarch how he tried to explain to Mottram the concept of papal infallibility:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

Thereupon she called her brother to her, and that catechumen, and spoke to them, saying: Stand fast in the faith, and love you all one another; and be not offended because of our passion.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Born of heathen parents, he turned to Christ and became a catechumen.

From Time Magazine Archive

The catechumen could not receive baptism until after he understood something of the nature of the faith he was embracing, and was prepared to assume its obligations.

From Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning by Doane, T. W.

Immediately on his birth, he was made a catechumen; in his childhood he fell ill, and asked for baptism.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal