Exclusive Catechetical Features

Click Here - Catechetics Message Board
Click Here - Religious Art Gallery
Click Here - Catechetical Archives
Click Here - All about Clergy Titles

An Introduction to Catechetics

These short lessons will introduce you to religious education as it is meant to be practiced in the Church. It is a refutation of such educators as Gabriel Moran and Thomas Groome.

Basic Principles of Religious Education

Click Here - Lesson 1. Introduction to Catechetics
Click Here - Lesson 2. Six Aims of Catechesis
Click Here - Lesson 3. Deficiences in Modern Catechesis
Click Here - Lesson 4. The Story of Salvation
Click Here - Lesson 5. Teaching To Wonder
Click Here - Lesson 6. The Liturgy
Click Here - Lesson 7. Teaching in the Shadow of the Masters
Click Here - Lesson 8. Sacred Spaces

Click Here - Appendix 1. The Essential Book List for Catechists
Click Here - Appendix 2. Other Texts for Catechists
Click Here - Appendix 3. Catechetical Saints
Click Here - Appendix 4. Oath of Fidelity

Lesson Planning: Designs and Examples

Click Here - Lesson Planning
Click Here - The Ecclesial Method
Click Here - Blank Ecclesial Method Template
Click Here - Classroom Handouts and Working Examples

Primary Catechetical Documents

Click Here - Adult Catechesis in the Christian Community
Click Here - Catechesi Tradendae
Click Here - Christifidelis Laici
Click Here - Compendium of Social Doctrine
Click Here - Credo of the People of God
Click Here - Ecclesia de Eucharistia
Click Here - Evangellii Nuntiandi 
Click Here - Guide for Catechists
Click Here - Laborem Exercens
Click Here - Lay Catholics in the Schools
Click Here - General Directory for Catechesis (1997)
Click Here - Ut Unum Sint (That theymay be one)
Click Here - Our Hearts were Burning Within Us (External Link)

Catechisms and Catechetical Instruction

Click Here - The Blessed Curé of Ars in his Catechetical Instructions
Click Here - The Catechism of Saint Pius X
Click Here - The Douay Catechism of 1649
Click Here - A Catechisme by Vaux
Click Here - The Baltimore Catechism #3
Click Here - The Catechetical Instructions by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Click Here - The Catechetical Lectures by Saint Cyril
Click Here - The Catechism of the Council of Trent

Other Texts

Click Here - St. John Bosco, Blessed Friend of Youth
Click Here - Letter of JPII about St. John Bosco
Click Here - Words Every Catholic Should Know