Teaching Our Faith — The New Evangelization
byThis series of teaching editorials about the great synods of the last 40 years provides an opportunity to reflect upon the major themes that…
Editorials & Commentary
An Encouraging Word — How to bring people back to church?
bySir, we would like to see Jesus! John 12:21 It’s enough to make a priest cry — the fact that one-third of Americans who…
Hope in the Lord — Ardor and apathy
byIn March of 1983, Blessed John Paul II, still in the first years of his service as Holy Father, visited South America and spoke…
An Encouraging Word — Silence has advantages
byBe still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10 For me, the world is a very noisy place. It occurred to me recently…
Teaching Our Faith — ‘I will give you shepherds’
byTo coincide with the beginning of the Year of Faith, Archbishop Kurtz will be participating at a synod on the new evangelization in October…
Teaching Our Faith — Important Synods: Family Life
byAs we prepare for the synod on the new evangelization, it is helpful to remember how past synods have had a great impact on…
An Encouraging Word — We must ensure our actions are good
byA man can slip and not mean it. Sirach 19:15 There is a lot of flawed moral reasoning today around the issue of intentionality,…
An Encouraging Word — The key to rebirth is cooperation
byBe united in the same mind and in the same purpose. I Corinthians 1:10 Glenn Rutherford, editor of The Record, wrote a wonderful editorial…
Teaching Our Faith — Synod on evangelization
byWho are we? What are we doing? What should we do? These fundamental questions of identity and purpose were asked by Pope Paul VI…
An Encouraging Word — Why bother with encouragement?
byLet not fidelity leave you. Proverbs 3:3 I started writing this column as a way of encouraging discouraged Catholics. I am nearing the end…