Catholic religious education came of age right here in Baltimore in 1885. That was the year the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore produced “A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, Prepared and Enjoined by ...

In 1884, seeing the need to explain Catholic doctrine clearly and definitively to American schoolchildren, the bishops of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore appointed a commission to prepare a new ...

Praying in a local Adoration chapel recently on one Sunday, I suddenly heard someone begin to sob and then rush out of the chapel. I quickly bowed to the Eucharist and went searching for her. There ...

The first official catechism produced by the United States Catholic Bishops since the creation of the Baltimore Catechism, will be available this week. The United States Catholic Catechism for Adults, ...

Question: Where is God? Answer: God is everywhere. This nine-syllable exchange, one of dozens of similar mini-mysteries solved in an educational book known as the “Baltimore Catechism,” will strike a ...

All these decades later, Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore can recite from the small book he memorized in an elementary classroom. So can Carol Nevin “Sue” Abromaitis, a Loyola College English ...

The new Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a 200-page synthesis of the 1992 catechism, will be available starting March 31 from the publishing office of the U.S. Conference of ...

The Vatican has approved the U.S. bishops' 2008 decision to change a sentence in the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults that called God's covenant with the Jewish people "eternally valid for ...