April 2025 - Catechetical Review: Persecution in the Christian Life

Reflect on the cost and fruit of discipleship in this April 2025 edition of Catechetical Review (Issue #11.2), Persecution in the Christian Life. This issue explores the witness of persecuted Christians and martyrs, the relationship between persecution and holiness, and how to form disciples whose faith endures.

An essential resource for catechists, religious educators, youth ministers, and Catholic school teachers seeking to form courageous, faithful disciples.

Featured articles include:

• Persecution and Sanctity by Dr. James Pauley
• Hope: A Call to Responsibility by Archbishop Bashar M. Warda, CSsR
• Jubilee 2025: Pilgrims of Hope by Fr. Francesco Scalzotto
• Mary, Mother of the Messiah, and her Mothers in Faith by Gayle Somers
• The Seed that Sprouts and Grows: Forming Disciples in a Catholic High School by Patrick Reidy
• The Kerygma of the Martyrs by Cynthia Stalcup
• Plus articles on purgatory, the spiritual life of the catechist, forming teens as disciples, the order of teachings in OCIA, and more

This comprehensive resource connects the witness of the persecuted Church with catechesis and the formation of missionary disciples.

The Catechetical Review, an international quarterly catechetical journal, is primarily written for Directors of Religious Education, catechetical leaders, Catholic school teachers, youth ministers, OCIA coordinators and anyone involved in faith formation. Its contributors, who aim to help in the formation of all those in a position to hand on the faith, come from academic catechetics faculties and “from the field”.