Catherine Maresca is the founder and director of the Center for Children and Theology in Washington, D.C., where she researches and teaches about the spiritual life of children. She has been a catechist in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for 32 years at Christian Family Montessori School and has been training catechists since 1985. Maresca is the author of “Double Close: The Young Child’s Knowledge of God.”