The General Directory for Catechesis in Plain English

Here's a practical and encouraging way to bring parish families into an enriching and rewarding process of catechesis. Karen Howard outlines a program that incorporates a lectionary-based curriculum with the teachings of the Catechism of the Catholic Chur

Contains creative prayer services for each week of Year A, as well as several key feast days. Each service is designed with the "Whole Community Catechesis" approach in mind. Includes original music. Excellent for parish gatherings and meetings.

Pastors, what do you want for your parish? If you are like most pastors, you want active parishioners, a well-trained staff, harmony within the parish, enough money, and above all, a place where everyone feels welcome. The good news is that pastors around

This collection of scholarly and thought-provoking articles, drawn from the interdisciplinary journal The Living Light, focuses on current topics in adolescent catechesis.

Catechetical leaders across the country are calling for a new framework, a new model for catechesis that involves the whole community: the family, the catechumenate, the parish, Catholic schools, groups of the faithful, and basic ecclesial communities. Th

Here Nick Wagner offers a new framework for active participation in Sunday liturgies and he suggests that parish liturgical celebrations be evaluated with three key questions: 1) Are they prayerful? 2) Do they deepen faith? 3) Does the whole community par

One of the most influential and fastest-growing movements in the Church today is centered on St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (TOB), of whose teachings Christopher West is the preeminent translator for a popular audience. In Word Made Flesh: A Comp