Bishops’ conferences will need to determine the “process of formation and the normative criteria for admission to this ministry” and devise “the most appropriate forms for the service which these men and women will be called to exercise,” the pope said.
Being a catechist is a vocation, pope says in establishing formal ministry
Pope to institute formal ‘ministry of catechist’
The Vatican press office said that Pope Francis’ apostolic letter “Antiquum Ministerium” (“Ancient Ministry”), instituting the ministry of catechist, would be released May 11.