Those who teach with authority change lives. Children, young people, and adults eagerly respond to knowledgeable and trained catechists. This training takes commitment, dedication, confidence, and zeal. With the courses and seminars required by the Advanced Certificate in Catechetics, lay volunteers, religion teachers, and parents become true catechists – those trained to teach the Faith with wisdom and knowledge.

Certificate Objectives
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Course Requirements
Completion of the following six independent study courses:

• Forming Disciples: The Basic Tasks of Catechesis
• NDC: Vitalizing the Catechetical Ministry
• The Way Catholics Use Scripture: Pope Benedict's Verbum Domini
• Basic Principles of Morality 
• Living Mercy: Social Teachings of the Church
• The Mass: History, Theology, and Spirituality