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Back in Pittsburgh last week, Fathers Rice and Hensler busied themselves lecturing, answering catechismal questions such as: Is the present economic and social system a good one?

From Time Magazine Archive

It may designate the act of instructing, the subject-matter or the doctrine imparted, a summary thereof, the text of the traditional chief parts, or a book containing the catechismal doctrine, text, or text with explanation.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

He is met straightway with an array of the old catechismal formulas, clearly stated, well argued, but brushing athwart his mind like a dusty wind.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various

Indeed, with regard to both Testaments, I consider oral and catechismal instruction as the preparative provided by Christ himself in the establishment of a visible Church.

From Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Reuben holds too much in dread the old catechismal dogmas and the ultimate "anathema maran-atha."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various