3 Minute Catechism

Johannes Schwarz is an priest of the Archdiocese of Vaduz in Liechtenstein. He spends part of the year in a hermitage in the southwestern Italian Alps.“When I became a priest 20 years ago, I would have never been able to tell you that one day I will live in a hut,” he says. As a child, he was only “nominally Catholic,” as he puts it, and his family didn’t go to church.

 

As a young man, he dabbled in environmentalism, donating to Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund. Next came puppetry: Schwarz gave street performances across Europe. In 2004, Schwarz became a priest, serving for nine years in a Liechtensteiner parish. In 2016, he asked permission to withdraw from parish life in pursuit of his own projects—mostly writings, documentaries, and short films to translate religious concepts into modern parlance.

 

Below are some of the videos that Fr. Johannes made, translating the Catechism of the Catholic Church (932 pages in one edition) into bite-sized, engaging morsels. We will add a new one each week and encourage you to give yourself the gift of three minutes every week, to come to know the faith better, through the ministry of Fr. Johannes. At the end of 18 months, if your knowledge and love of our faith has not grown exponentially, come see Bishop Bartosic!