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  • The Gospel was written, as is gathered from the prologue (i, 1-4), for the purpose of giving Theophilus (and others like him) increased confidence in the unshakable firmness of the Christian truths in which he had been instructed, or "catechized" -- the latter word being used, according to Harnack, in its technical sense. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • It's our own damn fault when we pastor so badly, catechize so poorly, and expect so little.
  • But he would not try to fill the Court with new, "catechized" justices (a process to which he thought Douglas had been party regarding the Illinois state bench). On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position
  • Historian Anderson, of course, knows of countless cases of harassment of census workers, even dating as far back as 1890, when The New York Times reported about a citizen tired of being "catechized" by a census taker, who "grew more angry … until in a white heat he pitched into the servitor of the Government and threw him bodily out of the house, applying abusive epithets to him and insulting him in a manner that was anything but befitting the dignity of the position of the enumerator. Anti-Census Sentiment
  • Appalled by his indolence, gaming, and iconoclastic opinions, his psychology professor tried to catechize him: ‘Tut, tut, what does Saint Paul say, Mr. Crane?’
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  • I assure you I have not been so catechized since I was a baby: he seemed to wish to find himself allied to the Poet, as he was pleased to call you. Letter 156
  • For the rest of her life, Brise did just that, trudging across the untamed frontier to catechize children, build a school and found an order of Franciscan sisters. How The Catholic Church Endorses (Or Ignores) Mystical Visions
  • catechized" every Sabbath afternoon, is illustrative of the usual method of instructing young people of the parish in the Church Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The Faith of Our Fathers
  • He ‘catechizes’ her: ‘Good madonna, why mourn'st thou?’
  • To save Shaw from hell-fire, a friend prevailed on a Roman Catholic priest to catechize the upstart Atheist.
  • The focus now must be to teach -- to catechize/evangelize, I suppose -- why killing little humans is morally wrong. Graphic pics hurt the pro-life cause
  • I find the comment by Mike of Vermont to be a typical response from an insufficiently catechized & most likely, cradle Catholic. The State of Connecticut attacks the Catholic Church
  • Priests, like their counterparts in French towns, said public masses, administered the sacraments, preached, catechized and educated young men in town.
  • As the wife of an elite male householder, a widow, or (like Mary and Elizabeth) an heiress, elite women were expected to exercise authority over all servants, to dispense patronage (even if this meant little more than influencing their husbands), and catechize the children of the household "family. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
  • From our earliest years, we are catechized into a civic faith: Competition brings out the best in us.
  • It is worth noting again that the liturgy is not a ‘tool’ used to catechize Christians.
  • Supreme Court with "catechized" justices, a strategy almost certain to backfire, they should content themselves with modest, competent justices who are free of ideological bias, and all the while keep their eyes on the real prize: "public sentiment. On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position
  • The natural sorting process tells us something about how we need to catechize teenagers.
  • Or: A short vignette describing what happens when young, poorly catechized Catholics rely on emotions and the MSM to form their "thoughts" about things they should know something about, but — alas! — do not. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
  • I find the comment by Mike of Vermont to be a typical response from an insufficiently catechized & most likely, cradle Catholic. The State of Connecticut attacks the Catholic Church
  • Further, the economy of words and gestures in ritual speech serves to form and catechize in ways that formal discourse about this practice cannot.
  • It was a sad spectacle of the 19th century that some missionaries carrying crosses also felt compelled to catechize foreigners in European cultural distinctives. Ben Stevens: Is Anders Breivik A European Fundamentalist?
  • The weird Scottish Calvinist Sir Archibald Johnston, who catechized his wife in bed, gets half a chapter to himself. Pens at the Ready
  • In education, as much as in religion, New England luminaries pushed authoritative, rote, catechized practices out of the picture and worked for a more dialogic but standardized discourse of learning.
  • I received training in this method to catechize children aged 3-6 some years ago, and although I haven't taught in an Atrium in years, knowing the method continues to illuminate my thinking in this area. Archive 2009-01-01
  • Nevertheless, Protestant ministers were originally expected to catechize Bible readers, involving doctrinal claims that structured how the Bible would be put together.
  • None may chastise him for deviance (for there is none), nor catechize him about the path to take (for there are as many paths as there are seekers).
  • Hopefully when we do we'll be focused on an authentic agiornamiento that will revitalize the Church's mission to evangelize non-Catholics and re-catechize/catechize nominal ones. The "homosexualization" of the clergy in Latin America
  • Have you created resources to catechize the faithful? Priestly Input: Reform of the Reform Updates?
  • Jenson bemoans the loss of moral demands of a ‘highly opinionated God’ and the anomalous quandary of having to catechize the baptized in a post-Christian world.

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