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Welcome to the Catechetical Review, an international quarterly catechetical journal primarily written for Directors of Religious Education, catechetical leaders, Catholic school teachers, youth ministers, RCIA coordinators and anyone involved in faith formation. Its contributors, who aim to help in the formation of all those in a position to hand on the faith, come from academic catechetics faculties and “from the field”.

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Articles from the Most Recent Issue

Light, Dew, and Fire: When Catechesis Is Attentive to the Holy Spirit
By Sr. Jude Andrew Link, OP
Free Several years ago, I stepped into another sister’s classroom to drop something off and found her seated on a low chair near the sacred space, her students on the carpet at her feet. She had an image of Fra Angelico’s Annunciation prominently displayed, but they were talking about the bells at Mass. “The bells are like the doorbell,” she was saying... Read more
Applied Theology of the Body: Purity of Heart and Sexual Modesty
By Dr. Donald P. Asci
Pope St. John Paul II devoted about 30 percent of his Theology of the Body (TOB) Catechesis (TOB 24–64) to extensive reflections on Jesus’s teaching in Matthew 5:27–28 regarding the need to avoid “lust” in the recesses of the human heart. St. John Paul II did not focus so intently on this teaching simply to hammer home the evils of lust. Instead,... Read more
Inspired Through Art: Mary, Spouse of the Holy Spirit – The Mystery of Michelangelo’s Holy Family
By James Patrick Reid
“What are those five naked boys doing in my Holy Family?” [1] Thus exclaims Agnolo Doni in Irving Stone’s novel The Agony and the Ecstasy upon seeing the tondo (round painting) he had commissioned from Michelangelo. Whether or not the real Agnolo Doni found the picture surprising in 1509, viewers today may well find the inclusion of such... Read more

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