October 2025 - Catechetical Review: Cultivating Community

Explore our need for community in living a missionary life in this October 2025 edition of Catechetical Review (Issue #11.4), Cultivating Community. This issue considers how Christian community sustains disciples and how catechists can foster it in parishes, families, youth ministry, and Catholic schools.

An essential resource for catechists, religious educators, parish leaders, and Catholic school teachers seeking to build communities where faith can take root and grow.

Featured articles include:

• St. Francis, Frodo, You, and Me: Our Need for Community in Living a Missionary Life by Dr. James Pauley
• Why Is There an Irish Pub in My Backyard? by Robert Kloska
• The Power of Community by Elizabeth Siegel
• Fearing the Fear of the Lord in Catechetical Instruction by Bishop Scott McCaig, C.C.
• The Allure of Aslan: How the Chronicles of Narnia Can Assist Our Catechesis by Róisín O'Rourke
• A Strong, Vibrant Tapestry: Cultivating Community Life in Your Parish by Andrew and Coreen Wagenbach
• Plus articles on loneliness among young people, parents in children's catechesis, disciples with impairments, the complementarity of man and woman, OCIA, and more

This comprehensive resource connects Christian community 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”.