How to Use catechism in a Sentence

catechism

noun

• They went to school to learn their catechism.
• He taught catechism at Sunday school.
• What our conservative friends overlook is that a roadmap is not a tour plan or catechism.
  — Paul O. Carrese, National Review, 9 June 2021
• His father was a doctor and his mother taught classes on the catechism.
  — Sarah Parvini, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• But history offers an outlook on life and a method for living it, not a catechism.
  — Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2019
• Truer, or more apt, words for the present moment were never spoken, now usable as a kind of daily catechism.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2020
• Acts of evil against innocent children cry out to heaven for vengeance, in the catechism’s quaint language.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 25 May 2022
• Htoo now teaches catechism classes, sings in the choir and participates in the Karen youth group.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
• This is not the first change to the catechism in the direction of less tolerance for capital punishment.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2018
• The founding is a sort of catechism for Anton and his ilk, but that doesn’t apply to the New Right vanguard.
  — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
• Her days were spent learning the catechism and doing embroidery work to raise revenue for the order that ran the facility.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• Carole Paladino was a catechism teacher at a local church and a retired school nurse.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 7 July 2018
• In audio, this sentence structure is repeated for roughly the length of a network sitcom, and slowly takes on the feel of mantra or catechism.
  — Giri Nathan, New York Times, 1 May 2020
• But the formal nature of the Catholic catechism has made any official papal pronouncement on the matter tricky.
  — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 30 Mar. 2018
• The traditional show-business catechism instructs the performer to leave ’em wanting more.
  — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
• Her small family in isolation is being sustained by emails from the parish priest saying they are missed and a note from the catechism teacher sending the kids messages and prayers.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2020
• Hi Chris, The bishop’s policies reflect, and are rooted in, the catechism and beliefs of the Catholic Church.
  — cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
• There are no accounts or syllabuses of what Anna taught the van Gogh children, but she was hired to give the children singing lessons and teach them Protestant catechism.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
• Francis held his audience Wednesday in his private library with around 10 priests to translate summaries of his catechism lesson, which was livestreamed.
  — Nicole Winfield, Star Tribune, 4 Nov. 2020
• Belgian bishops opposed the legislation, in line with the church’s catechism, which states that causing the death of the handicapped, sick or dying to eliminate their suffering is murder.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• According to Catholic catechism, the soul of an unrepentant sinner will go to hell and suffer in eternal fire, the BBC reported.
  — Natalie Dreier, ajc, 30 Mar. 2018
• Many of the people who gathered to wave Confederate battle flags in New Orleans as monuments were being removed likely haven’t heard of the catechisms.
  — Jay Reeves, The Seattle Times, 29 May 2017
• This stood for the seven virtues, and just in case Sister Mary Florence never taught you catechism, those are faith, hope, charity, prudence, temperance, courage and justice.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 25 June 2019
• His parents taught catechism in their backyard and raised children with social justice hearts just steps away from their parish, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2022
• 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.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Quade selected River Forest resident Guccione for the role in the show, which combines a mock catechism class with standup comedy and improv, for several reasons.
  — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• He was born in 1924, the third child of a carpenter and catechism teacher, in the Matibiri village in the Zvimba district of what was then known as Southern Rhodesia.
  — Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, 6 Sep. 2019
• Gonzaga described a religious life within the church complex in Qatar that includes Masses, celebrations for Christmas and catechism classes where children are taught the basics of the faith from prayers to the sign of the cross.
  — Mariam Fam, ajc, 15 Dec. 2022
• With both courtesies and catastrophes refusing to conform, the canton’s school board, publishers, and clergy were forced to produce multiple editions of primers, textbooks, and catechisms; sometimes five parallel print runs were needed for a population the size of a town.
  — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
• Jiménez became involved with the Young Lords, a street gang founded by Orlando Davila, who had met Jiménez at a catechism class that Jiménez's mother taught, according to his biography.
  — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025