Vatican City, Sep 26, 2025 / 16:58 pm

An American mother of eight who has spent nearly 30 years in the Arabian Peninsula helping form Catholics in their faith will receive the ministry of catechist from Pope Leo XIV this weekend during the Vatican’s Jubilee of Catechists.

Catherine Miles-Flynn, who has served as director of Christian formation for the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia for two decades, said there is “a lot of joy” in her work in Abu Dhabi, where she gets to “talk about Jesus all day.”

The Jubilee of Catechists, running Sept. 26–28, has drawn more than 20,000 Catholics from 115 countries to Rome.

In a press conference Friday at EWTN’s Vatican bureau, she described the vitality of Catholic life in Abu Dhabi, where “churches are packed all the time,” including at dail

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