Diocesan school superintendent earns doctorate
Dr. Rebecca Hammel recently completed her doctorate in Catholic Education Leadership and Policy from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Michael Ouma, a lay Catholic catechist who serves in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, is pictured in this Feb. 16, 2011, file photo. In a document released May 11, 2021, Pope Francis instituted the "ministry of catechist." (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)
Being a catechist is a vocation, pope says in establishing formal ministry
Formal institution into the ministry of catechist signifies that the service is stable, delegated by the bishop, and publicly recognized by the church.
