“DeLorenzo asks us to take sacramental preparation out of the classroom and into more intimate and personal faith formation groups.”
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“DeLorenzo asks us to take sacramental preparation out of the classroom and into more intimate and personal faith formation groups.”
Read moreNumerous members of the heavenly host persevered, endured, and evangelized through far FAR worse. Quite likely they are having a good laugh at the luxury of my puffball persecutions.
Read moreAs with so many other matters, who we define as “the lost” can have numerous threads of racial supremacy, cultural colonialism, sacral imperialism, and other biases woven into its warp and woof.
Read morePerhaps our real problem with grasping the topsy-turviness of the resurrection accounts is that we look at them as the final chapters of the gospels, and therefore we think that they are endings.
Read moreHistory shows us that human rites and religions get old patterns set very deeply in their bones—which is both a strength and weakness.
Read moreEvangelization is the lens by which we are called to do aggiornamento today
Read moreThe future of the Catholic Church doesn’t only lie in the walls the church, we must learn from our secular society how to love God outside of the chapel.
Read moreIf Protestant evangelization is word-centered, Catholic evangelization is sacrament-centered. Catholic evangelization is properly guided by the affirmation of Vatican II that the Church has the character of a “sacrament,” a “sign and instrument” of God’s saving activity in the world.
Read moreWorries about inculturation are often couched in terms of compromising the integrity of the Gospel. A recent case in India raises a correlative issue about compromising the integrity of other religions.
Read moreDespite the unorthodox artistic interpretations that are emerging, religious authorities in Norway are embracing the concept of experiencing religion through art.
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