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Jun 20, 2012 · Mr. Keller’s advice to disaffected Catholics, including priests, nuns and vowed religious, to “summon your fortitude” and leave allows no room for reconciliation, reformation and peace within...
- Unaffiliation and Disaffiliation
- Digging Beneath The Data
- Why Does God Invite People to The Community of Faith?
- Stacked Faith Formation
- The Domestic Church as The Church
Over the past thirty years, young people report increasing levels of religious unaffiliation. According to the General Social Survey, conducted for decades by the Public Religion Research Institute, there has been a more-or-less steady increase in the numbers of young people reporting that they are not affiliated with a religious congregation.In 20...
Unaffiliation reached a high in 2016 and has shown some slight decline since then, suggesting that this phenomenon may have plateaued. It may also suggest that efforts at pre-evangelization and evangelization are reaching more young people, but that thesis remains speculative. Unaffiliation is a very complex phenomenon. What a close look at the dat...
The phenomena of unaffiliation and disaffiliation give rise to ecclesiological considerations. First, let us note that even in the gospels we see people both drawn to Jesus and turned off by his message. Already in the apostolic period we see the beginnings of unaffiliation and disaffiliation.At the core of the contemporary phenomenon of affiliatio...
Formation in Catholic faith is not always linear and systematic. While it is certainly true that the Church has seen periods in which populations are born, nurtured, and formed in its faith and traditions, that pattern can hardly be described as the norm, particularly if we are mindful of the massive explosion of Church growth in Africa and Asia. T...
The phenomena of unaffiliation and disaffiliation are troubling and call for renewed pastoral energy. Parents who seek to form their children in faith will not, we have found, find great success by relying too heavily on the linear classroom model. The stacked model, by contrast, offers parents ways of approaching their domestic life with an eye to...
1 day ago · As with Borges’s mythical and mythically infinite library, the potential answers to the question What is Catholic culture? multiply in a riot of possibility nearly beyond all telling.
To live well is nothing other than to love God with all one's heart, with all one's soul and with all one's efforts; from this it comes about that love is kept whole and uncorrupted (through temperance).
May 31, 2013 · Detachment means getting rid of our “selfish clinging” (as Fr. Thomas Dubay used to say) to things or persons. St Thérèse asks to enter Carmel, from a play at the Oxford Oratory (Photo credit: Lawrence OP) It’s a response to God’s love for us. When you fall in love, everyone else in your life pales beside the beloved.
28 Part One The dogmas of the faith 88 The Church’s Magisterium exercises the authority it holds from Christ to the fullest extent when it defines dogmas, that is, when it proposes, in a form obliging the Christian people to an irrevocable adherence of faith, truths contained in divine Revela- tion or also when it proposes, in a definitive ...
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4 days ago · In our Catholic Church, any authority which is not exercised through service, particularly attentive to the pastoral needs of others, could be deemed overbearing and misplaced even when ...
