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A Parish that Does Not Revere Children is Suicidal

A recent negative experience at Mass left me thinking: are we shooting ourselves in the foot when it comes to young families?

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One Thing I Wish They Would Immediately Stop Teaching in Seminary

This nugget of wisdom makes sense in a thriving parish. But what about all the rest? 

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How to Rebuild Trust in the Church

We need to address things as they are with severity and sincerity. Here are 4 things we can do.

 
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How to Fire Up Your Faith When it is Weak

Are the embers of your faith burning low? Here are 6 questions to fan the flame. 

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Why Your Church Should Care about Its Coffee

Great coffee and telling people about Jesus is in fact quite compatible!

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8 Amazing Things a Church for Young Adults Can Do

If it’s difficult for passionate young adults to connect, how can we expect to attract the disaffected?

 
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Young Adults Need a Place in the Church

So much is possible when we set aside all distractions in ministering to young adults.

NES and Michael Dopp

Why You Need to Be at the New Evangelization Summit

Here are my top reasons why you don't want to miss NES!

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Why You Should Sing Praise to God More Often

It is truly fitting for the Christian to sing to his maker.

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Why Are Exciting Catholic Parishes So Rare?

Because exciting Catholic parishes are so rare, we don’t even know what standard we should be measuring ourselves by.

 

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We Desperately Need a New Vision of the Laity

At first she laughed. Then she got a bit emotional.
“We so badly need to think differently about ourselves as lay people."

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Why Urgent, Imperfect Evangelization is the Best Kind

I am on the plane right now on the way home from Halifax, where I was among the 600+ participants

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How to use social media like a saint

Saints do not drift when they are online, they swim. What I mean is they are intentional about why they do something.

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How to Turn Up the Temperature on Your Prayer Life

Here are some concrete resolutions to spend more time in conversation with God!

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Something I Want to Say to the Occasional Church-Goer

I hope that you discover what I did...

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How to Make Easter an Evangelizing Event

“Easter is coming, which is a very joyful time for us. We’d like to invite you to be a part of it if you like. Here is an invitation.”

Don't Make Decisions for People, Just Invite!

By assuming they do not want to hear the message we are doing them a disservice, because everyone deserves the opportunity to know Jesus.

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Why You Should Be a New Media Missionary

We all need to bring the Christian message to the online world, even if it means learning some new things, and here is why.

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Does Your Parish Have a Shallow End?

Like Pope Francis says, it all starts with encounter.

You Need to Embrace the Crisis that Wrecks You

It is good for us to get in touch with what wrecks us.

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Daring to Make Time for What Really Matters

"Some resist giving themselves over completely to mission and thus end up in a state of paralysis and acedia.”

Book Evangelii Gaudium

Has Evangelii Gaudium Made a Difference at All?

What am I doing now that I wasn’t doing before EG? What in particular has been “transformed”?

Nicky Gumbel interviews Fr. Cantalamessa

Suddenly Something Remarkable is Happening in Ecumenism

Be honest: do you believe that Christian unity is possible?

5 Things I Love About Working with Protestants

"What unites us is much greater than what divides us." -St. John XXIII

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Why I Am Not Impressed with a "Culture of Welcome"

Let's talk about the vast difference between 'welcome' and 'invitation.'

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I Want My Parish to Be Radical and Fearless

Does your parish set your heart on fire with a desire to "go and announce the Gospel of the Lord,” literally?

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The Painful Truth about the New Evangelization

Here are two ways you can and should get hurt in the New Evangelization.

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