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 ...

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, ...

Leaning back in folding metal chairs, encircled in our pastor’s study (circa 1977), my brother and I also find ourselves leaning into borderline boredom with fellow peers in a class called “catechism.

Talk about a potentially tough crowd. When “Late Nite Catechism” premiered recently at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights, actress Lynda Shadrake, who portrays Sister in the ...

It’s time to head back to catechism class, as the long-running interactive comedy – created in 1993 by Maripat Donovan and Vicki Quade – comes to the Norris Theatre for shows at 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 ...

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 ...

If, in grammar school, you never “got your ashes,” had naughty knuckles smacked with a ruler or passed notes to fellow catechism class sufferers, your notion of nuns may have been defined by popular ...

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 ...

Another case of conflict over church land in a village in the diocese of Hue. Local Vietnamese prefer police intervention to dialogue to resolve the problem. Hue (AsiaNews) – There number of conflicts ...

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 ...