When Pope Benedict XVI announced the Year of Faith, which began on October 11, 2012, he said, “We want this Year to arouse in every believer the aspiration to profess the faith in fullness and with renewed conviction, with confidence and hope” (Porta fidei, 9). Three ways to renew our faith As catechumenate ministers, how

My teenage daughters’ favorite television show is The Glee Project. On The Glee Project twelve teenagers and early-twenty-somethings live together for three months and learn how to be actors, actresses, singers, and dancers. But, it’s also a competition, where one person “goes home” each week and the eventual winner gets a starring role in the

Don Tapscott, in Growing Up Digital, lists eight shifts in learning styles for teenagers. The way I learned things as a teen was linearly. For lots of cultural reasons, teens no longer learn that way. This is important when we begin to think of evangelizing and catechizing teens in the catechumenate process. If we approach

This may seem like an obvious question, but there is a not-so-obvious answer I’d like to explore. To get to that answer, let’s look at another vital activity in human life—marriage. If I asked why betrothing is important, I think our answers would be qualitatively different than when I ask why catechizing is important. The