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Blog: Catholic Life & Evangelization

Reflections, book reviews, essays and news on living and sharing the Catholic faith today.

Jeanne D. Schrempf, winner of the F. Sadlier Dinger Award in 2019, originally published this beautiful essay on our blog in 2015. We are…

I have always found it interesting how well we Catholics do Lent as a season. We certainly have a sense of the expansiveness and gravity of…

At the NCCL conference in Buffalo, Dr. Tim Hogan presented a keynote, Encountering Who? The Gift of the Cultural Hurricane: How to build…

In the Church these days, we worry about evangelization. We design programs, we train our people, we read and write and talk about it, we…

What does the momentous visit of Pope Francis to the United States mean for the Church going forward? How can parishes leverage this…

This is a follow-up post to my broad reflection on Pope Francis’ trip to the United States. The following is an email message I sent to…

Beginning evangelization in a diocese or parish requires taking one little step at a time. I believe that the New Evangelization will truly…

Christmas season presents us with new opportunities to bring “the Good News of Jesus into every human situation” (Go and Make Disciples,…

Pope Francis has a way of putting things. Back in 2013, he called on his priests to be “shepherds living with the smell of sheep.” He said…

Evangelization has always been important for the Church, based on Jesus’ missionary mandate given to the disciples which is found in Matthew…

The New Evangelization encourages us to forego a one-size-fits-all approach to proclaiming the Good News of salvation from sin and death by…

Isn’t the world ready for a little more joy? It has been a year since Pope Francis shared his vision for Christian discipleship in The Joy…