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 ...

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 Catholic Church was nearly 2,000 years old when the Baltimore Catechism came on the scene. In the past 122 years, the Baltimore Catechism has become the standard for teaching the faith to new ...

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 ...

Most U.S. Roman Catholics who went to parochial school learned the facts of their faith by memorizing them. Generally, Catholic educators have relied on religious texts based on the 1884 Baltimore ...

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 ...