Evangelization

Mass Mentality: Priest’s Viral Video Spotlights Misunderstanding of the Eucharistic Sacrifice

03/28/2024 at 11:05 PM By Kevin Edward White
Do the majority of Catholics not fully grasp the why behind the Liturgy of the Eucharist? By Judy Roberts, National Catholic Register, March 28, 2024 When an Indiana priest’s message on the Mass went viral on YouTube recently, the response revealed a hunger among Catholics to... read more

Pope to priests of Rome: We are in a missionary land

01/13/2024 at 1:18 PM By Kevin Edward White
Pope Francis meets with over 800 priests of the Diocese of Rome in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, and calls the clergy to bear credible witness to Christ and to keep their homilies brief and direct. By Vatican News, January 13, 2024 A "missionary land". This was how Pope Francis described... read more

In Today’s Church, Who Is Evangelizing Whom?

01/07/2024 at 12:40 PM By Kevin Edward White
Fr. Jeffrey Kirby, Catholic Thing, January 7, 2024 As the Lord Jesus was preparing to ascend to the Father, He gave His Apostles and the nascent Church that surrounded them, the Great Commission. He told them boldly, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the... read more

The Catholic Church in Africa Is a Blessing

08/13/2023 at 10:43 PM By Kevin Edward White
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Youthful vitality and evangelical fervor for proclaiming the Gospel even in the context of intense persecution are Africa’s gifts to the Church today. By Micahel Warsaw, Publisher, National Catholic Register, August 11, 2023 When participants gather in Rome at... read more

Looking for the Lord Jesus in Lisbon

07/26/2023 at 6:07 PM By Kevin Edward White
Christocentrism is what has inspired millions of the young Catholics who have attended World Youth Days since 1984 to be the missionary disciples they were baptized to be... By George Weigel, Catholic World Report, July 26, 2023 In mid-May, I spent two intense days in Lisbon, where a new... read more

I Met a Jehovah’s Witness on a Bus — Here’s What I Told Her

06/04/2023 at 9:09 PM By Kevin Edward White
Charles Taze Russell ‘has spoken on his own authority, and you are not to fear him.’ By Angelo Srtagnaro, National Catholic Register, May 31, 2023 “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You sail the seas and cross whole countries to win one convert;... read more

Helen Alvaré Draws Blueprint for Protecting Religious Freedom in America

09/26/2022 at 11:56 AM By Kevin Edward White
COMMENTARY: In her new book ‘Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution,’ Alvaré recommends a bold, faith-centered strategy. By Andrea Piccotti-Bayer, National Catholic Register, September 26, 2022 The Supreme Court has vindicated religious freedom time and time again in recent... read more

Not the Pleasantly Social, but the Truth

12/01/2021 at 3:42 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Anthony Esolen, Catholic Thing, December 1, 2021 “Kid, my piles bleed for ya,” said the Dominican priest, after a student had given him a woeful story to explain why he had not yet turned in his paper. That was a long time ago, at Providence College, when the school was all-male,... read more

A CHURCH IN MISSION OR A CHURCH IN MEETINGS?

08/18/2021 at 3:28 PM By Kevin Edward White
By George Weigel, the Boston Pilot, August 18, 2021 Some recent survey data from Italy illustrates the depth of the challenge. In 1995, 41 percent of those surveyed in Italy professed belief in life after death; 28.6 percent believe in life after death today. In that same timeframe, the numbers... read more

Book Review: Deadly Indifference: How the Church Lost Her Mission, and How We Can Reclaim It

06/16/2021 at 10:02 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Dan Millette, One Peter Five, June 1, 2021 Deadly Indifference: How the Church Lost Her Mission, and How We Can Reclaim It(Amazon; Sophia Press)Eric SammonsCrisis Publications304 pages$18.95 Paperback; $9.99 eBook “Just shut up and stick to reviewing the book,” I remind myself... read more

Should We Evangelize Protestants?

08/09/2020 at 3:18 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Casey Chalk, Catholic Thing, August 9, 2020 We should stop trying to evangelize Protestants, some Catholics say. “Let’s get our own house clean first, before we invite our fellow Christians in,” someone commented on a recent article of mine that presented a Catholic rejoinder to a... read more

50 priests, scholars, journalists thank Viganò, Schneider for raising Vatican II questions

07/16/2020 at 11:46 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Junípero Serra and the Founding of the West

07/08/2020 at 7:33 AM By Kevin Edward White

‘Worship of initiatives’ is replacing faith, Pope Francis warns priests

02/28/2020 at 10:58 AM By Kevin Edward White

Our March 13, 2020 Catholic Citizens of Illinois Forum Luncheon Speaker John Paul De Gance: “RESTORING THE DOMESTIC CHURCH: HOW TO REBUILD FAILING MARRIAGES, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES.”

02/21/2020 at 4:57 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Pope appoints new archbishop for booming African diocese

01/02/2020 at 1:53 PM By Kevin Edward White

New Year’s Resolutions for Concerned Catholics: A Few Suggestions

12/31/2019 at 3:30 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Author with Fulani men in Nigeria.

The New War Against Africa’s Christians

12/20/2019 at 1:45 PM By Kevin Edward White

There were over 800 extremist attacks in West Africa in 2019

12/19/2019 at 1:38 PM By Kevin Edward White

The Idiosyncratic Pope Francis

11/25/2019 at 1:01 PM By Kevin Edward White