Opus Dei priest John Wauck says the lead character in Dan Brown’s potboiler Angels & Demons actually promotes Church teaching at one point in the book. “There’s a scene in the novel when the hero, ...

Catechism class at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in North Charleston over the weekend was a little out of the ordinary: The children were preparing to commune with the dead. The parish, whose ...

This nun will make revisiting your youth worthwhile. The one-woman comedy show “Late Night Catechism” will close Broadway Theatre League of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s 2014-15 season next week at ...

In Sister’s class, nothing is sacred. Or, perhaps, everything is. You decide. In “Sister’s Easter Catechism: Will My Bunny Go to Heaven?” at Easton’s State Theatre through Sunday, the audience reverts ...

She’s not a nun, but she plays one onstage. Patti Hannon is this week celebrating the third anniversary of Late Nite Catechism, the interactive, one-nun show in which she portrays Sister, a cranky ...

A photo of the author's First Communion, along with a souvenir from the ceremony (Gustavo Arellano / Los Angeles Times) In the spring of 1997, my sister and I took catechism classes at our home parish ...

Those attending Sister's catechism class better follow her rules — or they could find themselves on stage with their noses pressed against the blackboard, in the circle of silence, or sitting in the ...

In the spring of 1997, my sister and I took catechism classes at our home parish, St. Boniface Catholic Church in Anaheim. Once a week, we joined about 20 other teens in the basement of the massive ...