catechetical
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of catechetical
1610–20; < late Medieval Latin catēchētic ( us ) (< Greek katēchē- ( see catechesis) + Medieval Latin -ticus -tic ) + -al 1
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They involve dedicated space, children-led prayer and wooden tools and toys that are intended to be “tactile and beautiful,” according to Sister Joan Curtin, director of the catechetical office of the Archdiocese of New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2015
He boycotted the Dutch church's official catechetical institute and its counseling center for troubled priests and nuns.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two months ago, however, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith concluded that Christ Among Us "was unsuitable as a catechetical text" and could not be made otherwise even with "substantial revisions."
From Time Magazine Archive
But Sonnenkamp thought: This walking university, these ready catechetical answers on every subject, begin to grow a little tedious; it is well that we are going into a wider circle.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
During this introductory discipline they were called catechumens, and the teaching itself catechetical, from the careful and systematic examination by which their grounding in the faith was effected.
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
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