New Evangelization & Discipleship

The most distinguished son of Pocahontas, Iowa, Father James V. Schall, S.J., died at age 91 on April 17, just as Lent 2019 was drawing to a close and Easter was visible on the horizon. Father Schall was what’s usually referred to as an “old-school Jesuit” — meaning (to my mind) that... Read more

The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist had a problem. They were running out of room at their convent in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where they had been based since 1997. It was a good problem to have, the result of a boom in young vocations. But it meant that the community of 140... Read more

Those of us who live in the West live in cultures that pride themselves on autonomy, individualism, and a will-to-power. According the philosophies that undergird our culture, we as individuals are the harbingers of truth and freedom. We don’t need people. We only allow them into our spheres... Read more

[caption id="attachment_111681" align="aligncenter" width="760"] Credit: Maik Meid via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0[/caption] Before Sister Ruth Pfau arrived in Pakistan in the 1960s, life for leprosy victims in the country was filled with suffering and ostracization. In addition to the discomfort of the... Read more

In light of all the controversies and scandals that rocked the Church in 2018, many Catholics attempted to answer the question “why are you still Catholic?”  There is every indication that these controversies and scandals will continue and increase in 2019, so the question remains.  While... Read more

Woodrow Wilson was president, people drove their Model Ts to see Charlie Chaplin movies, and World War I had just ended when Deacon Lawrence Girard was born on Nov. 21, 1918. Since his birth a century ago, the world has not slowed down, and neither has he — or at least not much for a... Read more

When I read the recent results from a Barna Group report suggesting that just under half (47%) of Christian Millennials think it’s wrong to evangelize, I confess I felt a bit like the Apostle Paul, trying his best day by day, letter by letter to show his brethren that the promises to Abraham... Read more

Mocking Mormonism,” late-Catholic theologian Stephen Webb observed, “is one of the last frontiers of verbal lawlessness to be untouched by the vigilante powers of political correctness.” The Mormon missionary is the preeminent recipient of popular derision – The Book of Mormon, a... Read more

Gizo, Solomon Islands, Jan 7, 2019 / 07:00 pm (CNA).- Known as the “flying bishop” of Solomon Islands, Bishop Luciano Capelli visits Catholics across dozens of islands by piloting a small airplane he also uses to deliver food and medicine. Capelli, an Italian, was a Salesian missionary in... Read more

For nearly two years in his early 30s, Dabo Swinney remembers praying the same thing every morning while driving to work: “God, I want to coach. That’s what my will is, but I want to be within Your will. If it’s not Your will for me, I pray that You keep that door closed and help me... Read more