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NCCL's Week of Prayer for Catechists - Reflection 4

In a 2017 address to catechists, Pope Francis said: “…catechists are creative; they seek to use different means and forms to proclaim Christ. …T...

NCCL's Week of Prayer for Catechists - Reflection 3

When we think of the catechetical responsibility: to share the Catholic Story; to be a witness of God’s love, compassion and faithfulness; and t...

NCCL's Week of Prayer for Catechists - Reflection 2

After the first day of catechetical sessions, a dad asked his son the name of his catechist. The young boy responded, “Oh, I forget; but she mus...

NCCL's Week of Prayer for Catechists - Reflection 1

Why do we designate the third Sunday in September (in the U.S.) to highlight and support catechists?

Catechesis is a distinct and special minis...

A Personal Reflection from NCCL's Executive Director, John Roberto

In May I was asked to offer a short reflection at a graduate school of ministry commencement. I shared eight beliefs about cultivati...

In the recent “Planning for Parish Catechesis” blog series you will find six systemic approaches that can stimulate your thinking about planning new initiatives in 2024-25 and beyond (go to ncclcathol...

Planning for Parish Catechesis in 2024-2025
Part Three, Article 2/2

Part Three in the “Planning for Parish Catechesis” series proposes six systemic approaches that can stimulate your thinking about pl...

Planning for Parish Catechesis in 2024-2025
Part Three, Article 1/2

Part Three in the “Planning for Parish Catechesis” series proposes six systemic approaches that can stimulate your thinking about pl...

Planning for Parish Catechesis in 2024-2025
Part Two

Thinking systemically involves looking at things as interconnected systems rather than isolated parts. It's about understanding how various compone...

Planning for Parish Catechesis in 2024-2025
Part One

As the 2023-24 program year comes to a close, your thoughts (but maybe not your energy just yet) turn toward planning for the 2024-25 program year...

Where have all the people gone?
Why aren’t they participating like they used to do?
Why is it so hard to involve people in regular participation at Sunday Mass, parish events, catechetical programs, and...

Learning Models

Intergenerational learning provides a way to educate the whole community, bringing all ages and generations together to learn with and from each other, build community, share faith, p...

3 Strategies

Part Two of the “Pathways to an Intentionally Intergenerational Parish Community” series focuses on a variety of strategies that your church can use to build an intergenerational culture...

In a time where people long for connection, community, and belonging and where loneliness and isolation is so widespread, parish communities can become welcome environments for acceptance and relation...

...is “the ability of a person or organization to do something" (Cambridge Dictionary); “the ability to understand or to do something, such as the intellectual capacity for som...

Over the past two decades we have been blessed with some of the best research ever done on the role of parents and the family in forming the faith of children and young people. The research confirms t...

The past 20 months have been a time of renewal for the National Community of Catechetical Leaders, We have been guided by our mission to promote the ministries of evangelization and catechesis in the ...