Saint John Paul II, during his pontificate of nearly twenty-seven years, had two main streams of thought. They can be characterized as the preservation of the Christian heritage and the transformation of contemporary secular culture through … [Read more...]
Toward Evangelization of Creators of the Christian Culture
October 27, 2023 by Fr. Zbigniew Tyburski, PhD
Parish Evangelization
November 24, 2021 by John F. Kippley
It is common to hear or read references to the New Evangelization based on the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of St. John Paul II, Christifidelis Laici (On the Vocation and the Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World) … [Read more...]
Preaching Politics from the Pulpit
January 28, 2021 by Fr. Thomas F. Dailey
With the 2020 electoral campaign now behind us, candidates in close races strategize about how to garner votes among religious believers in two and four years. So, too, religious leaders will once again have to brace for political battle in … [Read more...]
Deacons as Apostles for the New Evangelization
October 30, 2020 by Deacon Stephen Hilker
“Whoever believes that Christ the Lord is the way, the truth and the life, whoever knows that the Church is his continuation in history, whoever has a personal experience of all this cannot fail, for this very reason, to become fervently m … [Read more...]
The Call of the New Evangelization for Preachers
February 26, 2020 by Fr. Charles Fox
Although the new evangelization is new in several respects, its message is the timeless Gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ, following St. Paul, who writes, “What we preach is Christ crucified” (I Cor 1:23). At the heart of the pre … [Read more...]
The Eucharist as Source and Summit of Evangelization in the Recent Magisterium
December 28, 2019 by Fr. Charles Fox
“Yes, if only I am lifted up from the earth, I will attract all men to myself.”[1. Jn 12:32. All Scriptural quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from the Knox Translation of the Bible.] In recent decades, the Church’s Magisterium has rep … [Read more...]
“How Shall This Be?”
A Call to Humility for a New Pentecost
March 28, 2019 by Douglas G. Bushman, STL
Consider, O Brethren, this great marvel. God is on high: reach up to Him, and He flees from you; Lower yourself before Him, and He comes down to you. — St. Augustine There has been an almost-constant stream of news concerning sexual a … [Read more...]
Words of Life for Cutting Words
A Catholic Response to Teens on Social Media Writing Sites
January 28, 2019 by Mark C. McCann
With more and more young people reaching out to one another through social media, there has been an increased call for new forms of ministry to teens within these virtual worlds. With the advent of public writing sites that allow for the … [Read more...]
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the New Evangelization
October 29, 2018 by Deacon Peter Trahan, MATh
Is the New Evangelization still relevant? The assured answer is a resounding Yes! However, it has fallen out of favor as a pastoral movement, fallen under the weight of its own branding. Given its origins as the overarching thesis of the … [Read more...]
Now Is the Time
The Urgency of the New Evangelization
October 19, 2017 by David H. Delaney, PhD
At the beginning of his pontificate, Saint John Paul the Great coined the term “new evangelization” to describe a great urgency facing the Church. Nearly forty years on, the use of the term is now widespread among Catholics involved in alm … [Read more...]
Disciple-Making with Mercenary Love
“Gold, Silver, Precious Stones"? Or “Wood, Hay, or Straw"?
September 9, 2017 by R. Thomas Richard, PhD
What is needed in these times to ignite a “new evangelization” that will return zeal and vigor to our Catholic parishes and dioceses? We certainly are in need of personal and ecclesial renewal that is faithful to our Lord, and to His call to … [Read more...]
Applying Six Offline Models to Online Evangelization
June 28, 2017 by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC
The Internet has now opened up as a wide field for our evangelization. Much of the cultural interchange now takes place via such electronic means. The Church is called to step out into every new forum and evangelize it, yet for the online … [Read more...]
Early Summer Reading
June 12, 2017 by Book Reviews
I Burned for Your Peace. Augustine's Confessions Unpacked by Peter Kreeft. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2016). Reviewed by Matthew K. Minerd, Ph.L. Desiring a Better Country: Forays in Political Theology by Douglas Farrow. (Montreal &a … [Read more...]
The Priest: The Gift of Self
February 1, 2016 by Fr. Vincent Miller, STL
Two fundamental principles run through the famous passage from Pope Paul VI’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes (24:3), which reads, “This likeness {between the union of the Divine Persons, and the uni … [Read more...]
Renewal and the Remnant
February 1, 2016 by Maria O'Shea
Sabotage within and “missiles” from without: when it comes to the fortunes of the Church, it seems there is nothing new under the sun. Like our ancestors, the ancient Israelites, we live in a “mixed economy” and have to deal with the tension … [Read more...]
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