Earlier I mentioned that passing on the faith requires an engagement of the heart, mind and will. Given the better educated populace in many parts of the world, it is no longer sufficient simply to repeat theological jargon that young people can memorize. What do the words mean? Why should I believe it? What evidence
Last June Pope Francis shared that it is dangerous to think that one can only have a personal relationship with Jesus “without communion with and the medication of the church”. We need to unpack and understand what the Pope is really saying here in this context. Obviously, we do encounter Jesus in personal prayer and
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — God did not choose perfect people to form his church, but rather sinners who have experienced his love and forgiveness, Pope Francis said. The Gospel of Luke’s account of Jesus forgiving the sinful woman shows how his actions went against the general mentality of his time, a way of thinking that
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles told 1,600 Catholic teens gathered for the “City of Saints” conference that their faith and love for Jesus was an inspiration. “Your desire to live your faith and share your faith — it is so beautiful to witness. And it is so inspiring,” he
MANILA, Philippines (CNS) — After emerging from a face-to-face meeting with six drug users, Sister Maria Juanita “Nenet” Dano heaved a small sigh of relief that perhaps these men would not meet a bloody end like dozens of others in the San Andres Bukid slum area where she works. The men had come forward to
MANCHESTER, England (CNS) — Pope Francis has given a Belgian religious order until the end of August to stop offering euthanasia to psychiatric patients. Brother Rene Stockman, superior general of the order, told Catholic News Service the pope gave his personal approval to a Vatican demand that the Brothers of Charity, which runs 15 centers
CHARLESTON, S.C. (CNS) — Father Allen Corrigan likes to say that he first started flying an airplane in elementary school. When the priest from the Cleveland Diocese was in the third grade at Catholic school, he would “fly his desk,” drawing the controls of an imaginary cockpit on the surface and pretending to fly during
WICHITA, Kan. (CNS) — Scott Hahn told a packed convention hall in Wichita that Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the Fatima visionaries, had once predicted the “decisive battle” between the Lord and Satan would be regarding marriage and family. And that battle is being fought today, said Hahn, who gave three talks during
JERUSALEM (CNS) — After decades of searching, Israeli archaeologists working on the shores of the Sea of Galilee believe they have uncovered the lost Roman city of Julias, home of the apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip. Mordechai Aviam, head of the Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology at Kinneret Academic College, said in a press statement
By Rose Gamier It took six years of waiting for the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa to finally be blessed with a new Bishop, on August 14, 2016 and a year after that historic moment, the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa and the Most Reverend Ryan P. Jimenez, DD, will celebrate the First Anniversary of his Episcopal
