Catholic Connection – August 15, 2022 – Hour 2
Dr. Marlon De La Torre is back with his monthly “No Bystanders” segment. Christopher Shannon tells us about his new book, “American Pilgrimage: A Historical Journey Through Catholic Life in a New World.”
Segment 1 – Intro and News
Segment 2 & 3 – Our Monthly ‘No Bystanders!’ Segment – The Star of Evangelization
Marlon De La Torre, Ph.D., is a big believer in the connection between education and Christian witness. Specifically, he says, one can’t proclaim the Gospel if they don’t know what the Gospel says. “If you are an effective teacher, that means you’re an effective witness of the Gospel,” De La Torre told Detroit Catholic. “You can’t be strictly an evangelist and not be able to articulate the faith in some way.”
Dr. Marlon De La Torre, who has decades of experience working in evangelization and education, including 10 years as director of evangelization and missionary discipleship for the Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, was named the Archdiocese of Detroit’s new director of evangelization and missionary discipleship effective Sept. 7, 2021.
As at the first Pentecost, still today, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of the Apostles, leads us in prayer for the gift of the Holy Spirit and inspires us with a sure confidence that the Lord hears and will not fail to answer. Mary was the very first person to proclaim the good news of Christ, when she welcomed his presence within her through the Holy Spirit and went in haste to share the good news with her cousin Elizabeth.
Segment 4 – American Pilgrimage: A Historical Journey Through Catholic Life in a New World
“American Pilgrimage narrates the story of the Church from the dramatic efforts at evangelization in the colonial period, to the Catholic urban villages of the immigrant Church, to the struggles to reimagine tradition in the late-20th century. In shape, it follows this story through the Augustinian contours of the ongoing struggle between the City of God and the City of Man—a struggle that takes place between the Church and the world, within the Church itself, and within the soul of every Christian.” (Originally aired August 11, 2022)
Christopher Shannon is an Associate Professor of History at Christendom College. He is the author of several works of American cultural and intellectual history, including, with Christopher O. Blum, “The Past as Pilgrimage: Narrative, Tradition and the Renewal of Catholic History.”
American Pilgrimage: A Historical Journey Through Catholic Life in a New World
