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Ministries struggle to recruit men to help bring Christ to the youth
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- August 4, 2017
The NET ministries, short for National Evangelization Teams, have been having a tough time this year recruiting men willing to join teams of young adults to evangelize teens throughout the nation with retreats and workshops.
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Conley: Evangelizing includes thinking outside the bureaucratic box
- Interviews
- July 13, 2017
Catholic bishops may have a lot of bureaucratic duties to perform, but that doesn’t mean bishops believe the solution to the Church’s problems is always bureaucratic. Pressed for an example of evangelical creativity, for instance, Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, points to a lawyer who sets up tables at Husker football games every weekend, handing out rosaries and answering questions about Catholicism.
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Naumann: ‘Pope Francis’s job isn’t to make a bishop’s life easier’
- Interviews
- July 11, 2017
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City-Kansas candidly admits that sometimes Pope Francis makes him a little bit nervous, but also says it’s not necessarily the pope’s job to make his life easier. He also says that underlying the rise of the ‘nones’ and defections from the Church is failure to foster a personal encounter with Jesus Christ.
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Looking for hope and the next generation of Latino leaders at Encuentro
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- July 2, 2017
If all goes well with the Encuentro process, which organizers call the “V Encuentro” because it’s the fifth time it’s taking place, church officials hope it will yield an increase in vocations of Latinos to the priesthood, religious life, permanent diaconate, an increase in the percentage of Latino students enrolling at Catholic schools, and create a group of Latino leaders for the church, as well as increase Latinos’ sense of belonging and stewardship in the U.S. church where their numbers are rising.
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As Pope Francis gives Sweden a cardinal, what’s behind his Scandinavian push?
- Analysis
- June 26, 2017
Although the plates were already shifting towards Sweden as the lead actor for Catholicism in the Nordic countries before Francis came along, the signs of interest and favor have multiplied on his watch, including giving Sweden its first-ever cardinal this week. Evangelical opportunities, immigration and ecumenism may all lie in the background of the pope’s Swedish outreach.
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CL head sketches a Christianity beyond the culture wars
- Interviews
- June 22, 2017
Father Julián Carrón, leader of the Catholic movement Communion and Liberation, is in favor of de-emphasizing the wars of culture, not because the Church’s traditional positions are wrong, but because starting with ethics was always the wrong way to present Christianity to the world.
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