With Our Young and Old We Must Go
Missionary Discipleship is all the buzz in the church. Maybe your parish is considering becoming Rebuilt. Perhaps they are pondering a Divine Renovation. Perhaps the answers can be found in Forming Intentional Disciples. Efforts towards the New Evangelization of the...
Following Parkland – What’s Next?
The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida was the deadliest mass shooting since the devastation involving elementary school children in Newtown Connecticut. As of this writing (the morning after Parkland) this is the 6th school...
The Pope Speaks to Young People
The Pope speaks to young people – all the time! Papa Francisco continues the traditions of his predecessors and makes a point of communicating regularly to young people. We in Catholic Youth Ministry should make it a continued practice, or tradition, to make...
Making It Up As They Go Along: The Secret to Bad Meetings
I had a colleague who would often come through my door, sit, and vent. Invariably, her frustration seemed to follow a very familiar outline: My colleague had just participated in a meeting. She entered it assuming that all were being treated as equal players. Someone...