New Evangelization & Discipleship Archives

An Atheist and a Pope discuss God’s Two Books

October 22, 2024

Over the past few weeks, digital Catholic social hubs have been ablaze with passionate debates sparked by Pope Francis’s remarks concerning other religions as “paths to God.” It is not my intention here to offer commentary on the pontiff’s words, as CWR contributors Larry Chapp and Christopher Altieri have

The Muscular Christianity of Eric Liddell

August 3, 2024

Editor's Note: After the Olympics, Eric Liddell answered the Lord's calling and went to China as a missionary. In this excerpt from his book A Manual of Christian Discipleship, he reflects on what it means to follow Jesus. A disciple is a person who

Restoring Christian Culture: The Mission of Young Catholics

May 4, 2024

Most people born in the late nineties and into the two-thousands have lived their childhoods and adolescent years deeply immersed in the secularist, technocratic culture of our age. In fact, whether we realize it or not, many of us have received more of our human

Current Sacramental Preparation is Failing Lost Souls

April 11, 2024

Earlier this week, my spiritual daughter texted to tell me that the course she and her husband took in preparation for their baby girl’s Baptism was a 20-minute YouTube video. That was the entire preparation. I was disappointed, but not surprised. In the post-COVID era

The Catholic Church Lacks an Imagination for Lay Agency

February 26, 2024

Some two years ago, I attended the Called and Co-Responsible conference at the University of Notre Dame. It was a conference about the role of the laity in the Church. One of the speakers, Fr. Michael Sweeny, O.P. made two insightful statements in his talk that resonated

Fishers of Men

January 24, 2024

Jesus gives his disciples many instructions and their duties as disciples. For example, in the great commission in Matthew 26:19, he instructs them to “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and

In Today’s Church, Who Is Evangelizing Whom?

January 8, 2024

As the Lord Jesus was preparing to ascend to the Father, He gave His Apostles and the nascent Church that surrounded them, the Great Commission. He told them boldly, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father

‘We need Jesus Christ’ — Germans at SEEK look to spark renewal

January 5, 2024

A tear fell from Bishop Stefan Oster’s eye. A standing-room-only crowd was silent as the bishop of Passau, Germany, spoke to young people about his personal devotion to Jesus. and the tense situation of the Church in his country. Oster was addressing international students at

Evangelizing “Lapsed Atheists”

September 26, 2023

"Lapsed atheist”—that’s how Russian-British satirist and social commentator Konstantin Kisin describes himself in a recent article entitled “The Atheism Delusion.” It’s a clever and humorous twist on the “lapsed Catholic” or “lapsed Christian” phrase, but it’s also more than that. Kisin’s reflections on his transition from

An update on the status of Fulton Sheen’s beatification cause

September 1, 2023

(Photo Credit: Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer, public domain via Wikimedia Commons) “Sheen is clean.” That’s the message from Monsignor Jason Gray, executive director of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation, regarding the status of the cause for beatification of “America’s bishop,” the late televangelist