January 2025 - Catechetical Review: The Jubilee Year of Hope

Enter the Jubilee Year 2025 with renewed hope in this January 2025 edition of Catechetical Review (Issue #11.1), The Jubilee Year of Hope. This issue explores the biblical roots and gifts of the Jubilee and offers practical guidance for teaching the faith in ways that transform.

An essential resource for catechists, religious educators, parish leaders, and Catholic school teachers seeking to share the hope of the Gospel.

Featured articles include:

• The Gift of the Jubilee Year by Dr. James Pauley
• Jesus and the Jubilee: Reflections for the Jubilee Year 2025 by Dr. John Bergsma
• Pilgrims of Hope by Joan Watson
• From Information to Transformation: Changing Approaches to Catechetical Texts by Fr. Dan Mahan
• The Story of the Church and Science by Dr. Dan Kuebler
• Teaching Like Jesus: Using Parable to Explain the Faith by Olivia Spears
• Plus articles on building a Eucharistic life, sacred music in Catholic schools, reconciliation with God, Theology of the Body, and more

This comprehensive resource connects the Jubilee’s call to hope with catechesis, evangelization, 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”.