July 2025 - Catechetical Review: The Communion of Saints

Draw closer to the saints who surround us in this July 2025 edition of Catechetical Review (Issue #11.3), The Communion of Saints. This issue explores our union with God and one another in the Communion of Saints and how the lives of the saints can inspire and shape catechesis.

An essential resource for catechists, religious educators, youth ministers, and parents seeking to share the Church’s living tradition of holiness.

Featured articles include:

• Tangible Encounters with the Communion of Saints by Dr. James Pauley
• “Draw Me, We Shall Run” (Song of Songs 1:4): Union with God in the Communion of Saints by Teresa Hawes
• Memento Mori in the Lives of the Saints by Jonah Soucy
• Discipleship According to Jesus by Bishop Earl Boyea
• “What Are They Thinking?”: Understanding Adolescent Brain Development as a Key to Effective Accompaniment by Cara Morales
• “By All Your Saints Still Striving”: St. Monica and Holistic Stories of Grace by Ben Safranski
• Plus articles on motherhood, memorizing Scripture with children, Catholic education as evangelization, teaching the relationships among doctrines, and more

This comprehensive resource connects the Communion of Saints with catechesis, the spiritual life, 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”.