Product Description: The Catechist Companion is a series of detailed lesson plans that are the perfect compliment to any diocesan approved religious education textbook. It is written with elementary school students in mind, but its concepts are easily adaptable for use with any age...read more

Product Description: Simple magic tricks for teaching spiritual truths to children are explained in precise detail in this distinctive compendium. The lessons faithfully follow the catechism of the Catholic Church, but many of the tricks can be used or adapted by teachers from other Christian denominations and other religions...read more

Product Description: Each year, roughly one-third of the more than five hundred thousand volunteer catechists in Catholic parishes are new to the job; they come with little formal training for their work and are essentially students themselves, quickly needing to learn how to prepare a lesson, lead a discussion, supervise children, apply discipline, and help kids grow in their faith...read more

Product Description: This practical and easy-to-use guide is a one-of-a-kind companion handbook to the wealth of Church teachings contained in the U.S. Catholic Adult Catechism for Adults.

Product Description: Why does it seem so hard to transmit the Catholic faith today? What are the obstacles that hinder modern men, women, and children from hearing and embracing the Gospel? Are science, technology, and mass media at odds with Christianity? Are new teaching methods helping to solve the crisis in catechesis or making matters worse? How can the Church do a better job of handing on her precious patrimony to subsequent generations?To address these provocative questions, some of the great churchmen of our times, including Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the man who would become Pope Benedict XVI, gathered in France in 1983 for two important conferences...read more

Product Description: The presence of the Catholic Church in the United States reaches back to the founding days of our country through the leadership of Archbishop John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop in the United States. His story, like other stories at the start of the chapters in the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults, gives us a glimpse into the lives of Catholics who lived out their faith throughout our country's history...read more

Product Description: We've done it again. The first volume of Readings for Effective Catechetical Leaders was so successful here s a second volume. Enjoy reading the best of the best from the 2002 - 2005 issues of NPCD News covering relevant topics in Catholic identity, collaboration, and professional development...read more

Product Description: The National Directory for Catechesis calls for every local community to have in place a catechetical plan that embodies the prophetic vision of faith-formation contained in the NDC and other recent documents of the Magisterium. It is one thing to call for a comprehensive, strategic approach to catechesis in official documents and quite another to develop it on every level...read more

Product Description: "The Deposit of Faith: What the Catholic Church Really Believes," by Monsignor Eugene Kevane, is a treasure of information for teachers of catechetical instruction. In the wake of the Heresy of Modernism, Catholics everywhere, especially parents of Catholic children, have experienced the proliferation of new opinions, the exclusion of the Deposit of Faith, and the suppression of the Catechism by religious educators...read more

Product Description: Bishop Malone and Dr. Eipers spoke of the hope that parish catechetical leaders need to have to carry out their ministry. It is based not on a weak optimism, but on the strength of God s faithfulness. Sr. Kate Dooley received the Emmaus Award for Sr...read more

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Product Description: The purpose of this book is twofold: first, to examine whether and to what extent three representative catechisms, widely used in Latin America, have incorporated official Catholic social teaching; and second, to suggest ways in which Catholic social teaching can be further integrated into catechetical approaches...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book uses political, religious, and cultural history to examine catechesis. Sister de Luna establishes that religiosidad popular, the core theme for Hispanic theology, is Christian and Catholic and traces its elements in Church catechisms of the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries...read more

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