The roles of Catechumenal school in the middle ages

in the first five centuries of the Church's history, catechesis focused primarily on the instructions structions given to adults as they prepared for baptism. By the 6th century, the organized catechumenate had all but disappeared The role of a Catholic catechist is to catechise (teach) the faith of the Catholic Church by both word and example.

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.