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• n  one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism)

• It consists largely of items like: "Why not give up cigarettes for a month and use the money for a catechist in Africa? Be Happy, Go Missions!".
• In Central America there could not be the slightest doubt that Cuba was at once the source of supply and the catechist of the Salvadoran insurgency.
• Having long been a catechist and a teacher of theology, Luciani now assumes the primary teaching office in Roman Catholicism.

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• Pope Benedict XVI in Zenit News Agency
  Benedict XVI called John Paul I "an incomparable catechist."
• George Weigel in Zenit News Agency
  Weigel told ZENIT that in these three years since Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Benedict XVI, he has made some key contributions to the Church: "He has been a master catechist, drawing the Church back to its roots in the Bible and the Fathers who...
• Cardinal Joseph Zen in AsiaNews.it
  May I highly recommend that each family, diocese, parish priest, seminary, catechist, schools, religious men and women, worker in the family life ministry and indeed any searching individual be equipped with this indispensable catechetical... Gaudencio Rosales http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudencio_Rosales&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGp3vTENw3HqRN1AHOw73DGeO20Mg GMA news.tv http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.gmanews.tv/story/119498/Cardinal-Vidal-seeks-more-signatures-vs-RH-bill&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEH1j5aMvCDW5G-0ME8Db8-38CiQQ Sep 10, 2008 15719 21893 catechumen Being a catechumen is somewhat like going through a period of courtship. With baptism at Easter, it is like getting married to the universal Church; the Body of Christ," said the neo-cardinal Zen, bishop of Hong Kong.