I do a lot of talking and writing about the feminine genius. Here’s some strong talk and holy vision from the Diocese of Phoenix regarding the gift of men, or the masculine genius, in God’s plan. There’s a relatively new website devoted to calling men forward and deeper with the Lord. It’s called Into The…
Read MoreQuestion: How can I strike up an evanvelization conversation? from Catholics Come Home on Vimeo.
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Yes, you too can be an evangelist in your own way. Thanks to Catholic Voices, a lot more people are being trained in communication of the Catholic faith in the media and marketplace of ideas. I really benefitted from their training, and I heartily recommend Austin Ivereigh’s book, around which much of the training revolved: How…
Read MoreAs Catholics… we believe that original sin isn’t something committed, it’s something contracted. We recognize that we have received from Adam and Eve a human nature devoid of the divine nature God originally entrusted to them. As such, we don’t so much see original sin as a “thing,” as we do a lack of a…
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What is the missionary impulse? This missionary impulse is implicit in our baptism. We Catholics are baptized into the Church. The blessing of our baptism is not only that it brings us into relationship with God, and into relationship with every member of the Church, but we are baptized into the mission of the…
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“The Church needs to be concerned for, and present in, the world of communication, in order to dialogue with people today and to help them encounter Christ.” – Pope Francis – World Communications Day message, 2014 If evangelization is part of church’s identity, then spreading the message of the gospel is what we need to…
Read MoreA few generations back, you can understand why many Catholics didn’t see the need to evangelize. They could live their faith in their homes and parishes, and when they walked outside — going to work, or school or the playground — the cultural temperature didn’t feel that much different than it felt inside. For all…
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I first met Lisa Hendey at the end of 2004 through an email. Who would have known what would become it? Eventually I was writing regularly for Catholic Mom, back then when there was a little more than a dozen of us offering columns there. Today there’s close to 150 writers at CatholicMom.com and over…
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Today is World Mission Sunday. Missionaries are on the front lines of the new evangelization! Meet Jonathan and Kristen Weiss, a young married couple with two small children who are part of the lay community of missionaries with Family Missions Company. Listen to a podcast where Jonathan and Kristen Weiss share their story of how…
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Here it’s coffee and conversation, and where the faith-sharing is often a friendly mix of catechesis and cannoli. It’s a place where we can catch up…
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