The Forgiving Father
In my first post at New Evangelizers, I used the analogy of fatherhood to understand why God may allow pain and tolerate bad behavior. God is the source…
Faith Library
Author: Joe Wetterling
Don’t Believe Everything You Read
You shouldn’t believe everything you read in the Bible… At least if you’re reading without considering the speaker or the context, that is. Perhaps you’ve been troubled by…
Our Mother the Church
In my first post for New Evangelizers, I wrote the Analogy of Fatherhood – how fatherhood has taught me something about God. In Lumen Fidei, the Holy Father wrote that…
Losing the Mission
The word “mass” comes from the same route as “mission”. At each Mass, we are sent forthwith a mission. What is that mission? What is our primary mission as Catholics? The…
We Are the 1%
We have a problem, you and I. We too often take for granted what we have. We have come into personal wealth that the world, as a whole,…
What You Say, What They Hear
In my article “Let Freedom Ring“, I asked “What does it mean to be free?” How can we do that? How can we ask what a word means?…
The Power of Story: An Interview with Joseph Pearce
I recently had the pleasure of talking with Joseph Pearce about the power of personal stories, especially as a means of evangelism. He’s uniquely well-suited to the topic: he has taught…
Let Freedom Ring
In the United States, we’ve just celebrated the Fourth of July, or Independence Day. It’s a day celebrating the freedoms for which our forebearers fought and died. Around…
Resolving Contradictions
John Paul the Great said the Church is a “sign of contradiction,” after the warning of Simeon in Luke 2:34. We, as the Body of Christ, must stand…
Learning 21 Ways to Worship (& a Giveaway)
In a brief review of Vinny Flynn’s 7 Secrets of the Eucharist, I wrote that it is a “conversational and easy read that is in no way light in…