Issues Published from 2004 - 2020:
Discernment & Discipleship
February 2020
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- The Cry of the Earth in Pan-Amazonia
- Catholic Social Teaching: Illusion or Vision
- Motherless Children: The African American Youth & Young Adult Ministry Struggle
- Get Started in Social Media with These Simple Steps
- Dealing with Doubt:What We Can Learn from Famous Doubters
- Bringing Hope to Marriages and Families Initiative
Accompanied by the Spirit
November 2019
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- The Prophetic Dimension of Catechesis in Difficult Times
- Accompaniment: The Melody Continues
- “Take Five”: Basic Principles for Cultivating Catechists
- Engaging Parents
- NCCC: Time to Take a Good, Hard Look
A New Generation of Faith
August 2019
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Discipleship Isn’t as Exciting as Youth Ministry Makes It Seem
- Let’s Watch Our Language
- Why Children in the RCIA Need a Community, Not a Classroom
- Front and Center: The Eucharist and Missionary Discipleship
Forming Leaders to Evangelize
May 2019
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Unity in Diversity: Ministering in an Intercultural Parish
- Reaching the “Nones” as Missionary Tacticians
- Go, Make Disciples!
- Catechetical Leadership as Evangelization
- What We Learned From Storefront Evangelization
The Fire of Faith
February 2019
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- With Fire in Our Hearts: The Journey to an Evangelizing Catechesis
- No Hablo Español
- Accountability and Pastoral Care:
- Leadership in Thorny Situations
- Engaging Teenagers: Reclaiming the Art of Scavenging
- Proclaiming Joy through Social Media
Our Story of Faith
October 2018
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Minding the Gap: Ministry and Transition from Youth to Young Adulthood
- Rediscovering the Journey: The Catechumenate Inspires All Catechesis
- Stories Have a Role in Nurturing Faith
- Sharing the Message of Mercy through the Big Screen
Steadfast Witness
August 2018
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- We Need Witnesses: Forming Young People and Adults through Stories of Grace
- How to Put Adults at the Center of Formation
- Walking with Youth: Preparing for the Synod on Young
- People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment
The Joy of Walking with Christ
May 2018
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Sophia’s Circle: Comforting the Brokenhearted
- Setting the World on Fire:Catechesis through an Evangelizing Lens
- Seeking Spiritual Balance in an Off-Kilter World
- Moving from Disability Ministry to Disability Integration
- The Art of Accompaniment
Grace and Faith
April 2017
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Faith Formation for the Generations & Seasons of Adulthood
- Faith Formation with Young Adults
- They Could Trample Me: Overcoming Fear in Middle School Ministry
- Leaving a Legacy of Faith:Naming Grace in the Domestic Church
- A New Approach: Evangelizing in the Classroom
Discipleship, Evangelization, and Mercy
February 2017
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Catechetics for a Field Hospital Church
- How to Make Saints and Evangelize People
- Moving in the Direction of Mercy
- Joined to Christ: Confirming Adolescents
- Matthew’s Gospel and the Process of Transforming Leaders
Call to Merciful Missionary Formation
October 2016
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- The Hour of the Laity
- Tú Eres Mi Otro Yo— Mercy and Immigration
- Shifting Our Focus: A Missionary Approach to Catechesis
- The Dynamics of Conversion in the RCIA
Inspiring Mercy through Ministry
July 2016
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Face-to-Face with Jesus:Helping Children Experience the Year of Mercy
- A CatholicImagination—Imagine That!
- Merciful Ministry
- All Are Welcome: Catechesis and Special Needs
- Meeting Them Where They Are: Catechizing Young People through Visual Language
- Igniting the Domestic Church
Mercy, Prayer, Openness
April 2016
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Master Catechist: Pope Francis’s Pedagogy of Mercy
- Challenging Conversations: Strategies for Working Through Ministerial Conflicts
- Water and Oil, Robe and Candle: The Symbols and Significance of Baptism
- I’m Over Facebook! What Parish Leaders Must Know About Social Media Today
- The Problem and the Antidote to People Leaving the Church
Encountering a Merciful God
January 2016
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Misericordiae Vultus: Connecting Mercy with Mission
- The Shape of a Rite of Reaffirmation
- Ever Ancient, Ever New: Encounter-Driven Catechesis
- Red Ink and BlueSkies: Planning for Renewal While Managing Decline
- Six Amazing Things Every RCIA Inquirer Has to Learn
Evangelization through Accompaniment
November 2015
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Sorting Fish: What the New Evangelization Might Learn From the RCIA
- Take Aim: Family Involvement in Faith Formation
- Create a Family Culture of Spirituality
- First Sacrament Preparation with Families
- Mercy Me,Mercy You: A Parish Catechetical Leader’s Primer for the Coming Jubilee
Innovative Discipleship
September 2015
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Sharing the Great Story
- Invest in the Church Today for a Better Tomorrow: U.S.-Born Hispanic Youth
- Disciple Building in Youth Ministry
- The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: Where a Child Can Fall in Love with God
- Is Faith a Private Matter?
Imaginative Evangelization
July 2015
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Unleashing Your Imagination: Living Joyfully is Not a Fantasy
- Fourteen Ideas for Adult Faith Formation: Send the Faithful Out on Mission to the World
- Who, Me, An Evangelist?
- Growing Up Catholic: Coaching Parents to Form their Own Children in Faith
- Preparing Those with Special Needs to Receive the Sacraments
Responding to God's Call
May 2015
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- God’s Gift of Forgiveness
- Youth Ministry is Everyone’s Ministry
- God’s Gift of Forgiveness
- Church Authority and Assent:Clarifications Ahead of Pope Francis’ Encyclical
- Who Will Fill These Shoes?
- How Mary Taught Jesus to Bring Peace to Relationships
- Religious Education Tuition and Financial Assistance: Balancing Value
Leading in Faith
March 2015
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Methodologies for Effective and Successful Adult Faith Formation
- What Parables Can Teach the Synod Fathers and the Church Today
- The Synod on the Family—and Religious Educators
Culture, Community, Invitation
January 2015
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Living the Life! Parish Life as the Curriculum
- Born Into a Culture, Shaped by a Culture
- “For the Forgiveness of Sins”
- Adult Faith Formation: A plan for parishes
- The New Evangelization and Disseminating the Good News
Catechist as Witness
March 2014
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- To Know the Place for the First Time
- Effective Witness Formation:Developing Catechists for the New Evangelization
- Pope Francis: “I am a Catechist”
- Marriage and Holy Orders: Sacraments of Witness for the Modern World
- The Elephant in the Room: Catechetical Leaders Speak about the Sunday Homily
Encountering Christ
January 2014
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Encountering Christ in the Family
- Mentoring Young Adults into Ministry
- Becoming an Evangelizer: Paul’s Story and Yours
- Making Disciples—for a Lifetime!
- Mentoring Young Adults into Ministry
- Following @Pontifex
The Family of Faith
November 2013
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Catechesis: Six Ways to Strengthen Families in Your Parish
- Connecting with Parents:Seven Skills That Will Make Your Job Easier
- Life Long Faith Formation
- Called to be Witnesses in the New Evangelization: Lessons from the Saints
- Rural Catechesis
Preparing for the Journey
September 2013
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Catechesis: Equipping for Encounter
- Adult Faith Formation: A Lifelong Journey
- Catechetical Resourcing: From Center to Service,
- New Pope, New Evangelization, New Return to Old (but Good) Ideas
- Celebrating Ten Plots in One Story: Catechesis and the Catholic Imagination
Making Disciples
July 2013
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Breaking Open the Six Tasks of Catechesis in the Classroom and in Life
- The Evangelizing Parish Today
- The Effective Catechetical Leader
- Ministry to Families Interagency Task Force Report
- Leading to Christ
- Baptismal Preparation Ministry and Beyond: The Richest Ministerial Soil for Evangelizing Young Families
Catechesis in a Secular Age
May 2013
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Catechetics in the Years After Vatican II
- Embrace New Methods: The Intersection of New Media and Catechesis
- Teaching Against Capital Punishment
- My Heart Burns within Me: Sunday Preaching and the Catechesis of Young People
- The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith
Small Steps to a Great Faith
March 2013
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Catechesis in the Year of Faith
- The Little Way of the New Evangelization
- The Year of Faith and the New Evangelization
- Catechetical Leaders, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Facts, Figures, and Questions
New Ministry in a New Age
January 2013
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Creating New Witnesses for New Evangelization
- We Never Did It That Way Before!
- Young Adults, Baptismal Preparation, and the Invitation to Belong
- Faith Formation for the 21st Century
The Door of Faith
November 2012
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- wo Big Ideas to Help You Open the Door of Faith
- The Door of Faith Reflects the Experience of Our Lives
- Faith: Holding It All Together
- Porta Fidei: A Door for the New Evangelization
- A Catechetical Response to the Church’s Teachings on Caring for God’s Creation
- Catechesis since the Second Vatican Council: An Incomplete Reflection (Part 2)
New Evangelization
September 2012
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- The Two-Millennium-Old New Evangelization
- The Encounter with an Event, a Person
- The New Evangelization: New and Improved or Just New Packaging?
- Co-Workers Leads to Cohort
- Catechesis since the Second Vatican Council: An Incomplete Reflection (Part 1)
Unity and Diversity
July 2012
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- The Ministry of Catechetical Leaders in Pluricultural Parishes
- Discipleship Training: Helping Children Be Like Jesus
- Home and Parish: Partners in Faith Discipleship Training:
- Focus on a Catechetical Pioneer: Reverend Pierre Babin, OMI
- Anchoring Confirmation’s Place to the Eucharist: A Catechetical Success Story
Eucharist, Mystery, Faith
May 2012
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Formed by Eucharist, Sent in Mission
- Mystagogy: Seek the Mystery
- Ten Advantages of Intergenerational Catechesis
- Connect, Awaken, and Share: Three Ways to Engage Parents in the Faith Formation of their Children
Catechesis and Cultural Change
March 2012
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- The Changing Ministry of the Parish Catechetical Leader
- The New Framework for Adolescent Catechesis
- Invitations to Growth
- The Development of Catechesis in 20th Century America
Imagine
January 2012
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Imagine Making Disciples of all Nations
- Immigration as Pilgrimage
- Storytelling as a Catechetical Tool in Eucharist Formation
- Called to Discipleship
Saints, Scripture, and Solidarity
November 2011
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Vincent de Paul’s Recipe for Solidarity
- Connecting Catholic Families with the Bible
- Becoming a Saint by Being Drawn into Trinitarian Conversation
- Transitions — A Transformational Journey
Symbol, Sacrament, and Witness
October 2011
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Thinking about the New Evangelization
- Catechizing with Symbol, Ritual, and Story
- Catechetical Leaders and Pastoral Planning
Catechesis through a Spiritual Lens
September 2011
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- The Future of Catechesis through a Spiritual Lens
- Accept a Life of Peace and All that It Embraces
- The American Experience of “Catechism"
The Past, Future, and Present of Catechesis
July 2011
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- The Life-Giving Spirit of Jesus in the Gospel of John
- The Future of Catechesis
- We Remember, We Celebrate, We Believe
- National Initiative on Adolescent Catechesis
Eucharist and Catechesis
June 2011
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- The Eucharist: Source and Fulfillment of Catechetical Teaching
- Catechesis on the Eucharist: New Testament Models
- The Eucharist and Conversion
Sharing the Earth's Resources Equitably
Sept-Oct 2010
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Sharing the Earth’s Resources Equitably: Not Constraint, But Conversion
- Sharing the Earth’s Resources Equitably: Environmental Justice in the Catholic Imagination
- Catechesis in the Military: Building on a Sense of Community
- Catechesis in the Military: To Feed His Lambs
Catechesis in the Multi-Ethnic Community
July-Aug 2010
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- At the Crossroads of Faith and Culture
- Catechesis in la familia is Communal
- Don’t Things Slow Down in the Summer Time?
- Summertime: Sacred Time for the Diocesan Director
- Vacation Bible Camp Is Worth the Trip
At the Table of the Lord
May-June 2010
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Eucharist and Divine Pedagogy
- Eucharist: A Short History
- Apprenticeships for Our Next Generation: Where Church Meets World
- Apprenticeships for Our Next Generation: Bridging the Ideal and the Real
- Apprenticeships for Our Next Generation: Addressing the Work Within
Catechesis for Easter People
March-April 2010
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Outside the Box: Mary as Reflecting the Risen Christ
- Illuminating the Paschal Mystery
- Passion-ate Catechetical Pioneers
- Ideas for Catechesis to Young People
Relational Leadership
Jan-Feb 2010
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Leaving the Door Open
- Leadership: Not the Same As Management
- Mid-year Evaluation of Programs: Red Flags and Green Lights
- Evaluation Embraces Diversity
How Evangelization Happens
Jan-Feb 2009
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Catechesis and Evangelization: It’s All One
- The New Evangelization: Mind the Gap
- Preach Always — and Sometimes Use the Internet
- InternetWeb 2.0: A New Forum for Catechetical Leader
Adult Faith Formation & Youth Ministry
July-Aug 2008
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Has Our Vision Been Renewed? Shifting Perspectives/Shifting Methodology
- Have Our Hearts Burned Within Us: Fire in Our Hearts
- Problem/Opportunity
- Education for Love
- The Overlooked, Ignored, and Rejected
- Benedict XVI: Pilgrim of Hope with a New Apologetic
NCCL Conference Issue
March-April 2008
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- NCCL Conference 2008: A Unique Opportunity
- Bienvenios a Houston
- Transforming Catechesis
- Doctrinal Formation from the Liturgical Year
- Just Live the Liturgy
- Towards an Anamnestic Catechesis
- Spiritual Development of Catechetical Leaders: Growth in the Spirit
- Spiritual Development of Catechetical Leaders: Following Jesus’ Lead
Revisiting the Ten Commandments
Jan-Feb 2008
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- The Commandments in the Language of Our Time
- Commandments in the Spirit of the Gospel
- Adult Faith Formation and the GDC: Ten Years Later
- Adolescent Catechesis: An Unfinished Agenda
- Catechesis Amidst Religious Pluralism
- The Field That Is the World
Political Issues and Catechesis
Nov-Dec 2007
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- The Value of Public Talk in a Public Church
- Standing Our Ground
- Catechesis and Public Engagement in a Transformed University
- Adolescent Catechesis in a Culturally Diverse Context
- “Console Another with These Words”
- Liturgical Catechesis: Come Lord Jesus
- Liturgical Catechesis: Mary: The First Welcome
Catechesis & the Environment
July-Aug 2007
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Called to be Faithful Stewards
- Augustine and Aquinas on Loving Earth
- A Parish Guide for Renewal
- Recognizing the Encounter
The Role of the Diocesan Staff
May-June 2007
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Doing More with Less
- Trinitarian Vision in Broad Strokes
- Diocesan Staff Wear a Lot of Hats
- Abrienda la puerta / Opening the Door
- Continuing the Partnership for Adolescent Catechesis
- “Engaging”: A Report
- Catechesis and the Baptismal Catechumenate
- Will We Take the Leap?
- Fresh Eyes on the Baptismal Catechumenate
The Role of the DRE
March-April 2007
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Leading from the Second Chair
- From DRE to DELFF
- The Perfect DRE...
- Dear Catechetical Leader
- Visions and Dreams
- Clustering Parishes: When Enough Is Enough
- Multiple Parish Pastoring Models
- Our Little Cluster
Diocesan Director as Catechetical Leader
Jan-Feb 2007
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Learning to Prune and Cultivate the Vineyard
- Leadership in Wide Open Spaces
- Diocesan Catechetical Ministry: Gift, Grace, and Call
- The American Cultural Context for Adolescent Catechesis
- Leadership Training Continues with Prison Vigil
Incarnational Catechesis
Nov-Dec 2006
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- The Word Becomes Flesh
- God Has Come to Dwell Among Us
- Celebrating Confirmation: By Order
- Adolescent Catechesis: On the Road to Transformation
- USCCA — A Gift for All Catechists
- Tenacity and Technology
- Using the US Catholic Catechism for Adults: Writing Home - An Exercise in Praxis
Catechesis in an Age of Doubt
Sept-Oct 2006
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Both Trust and Doubt
- Using the C-R-E-E-D
- Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- Eucharist for the Journey
- The Digital Catechist
- From Advice to Nuns to Joan of Arcadia
Catechetical Dimensions
July 2006
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Cord of Catholic Identity Is Entwined with Justice
- Nurturing Wonder and Awe
- On Ten Years of Conformity Reviews
- Operation Catechesis Is a Catechetical Moment
Catechesis and Global Mission
May-June 2006
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- How Big Is Our Tent?
- Together As Equals
- Catechesis in a Globalized Context
- Embracing the Messiness of Adult Faith Formation
- The State of Adolescent Catechesis Today A Review of the Literature
- Young Adult Catechesis: Turning On the Light
- Jesus Was a Young Adult
Balancing the Pastoral Year
September 2005
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Diocesan Planning from the Foundation Up
- Tending the Vineyard — Attending to the Holiness
- Catechesis Is Not a Field of Dreams
- Adolescent Catechesis and the NDC
- Catechesis in an Age of Terrorism: Seeing the Big Picture
- Catechesis in an Age of Terrorism: A Psychologist’s Perspective
Religious Imagination
January 2005
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Imagine Crossing the Great Divide
- Adventure Into What Might Be
- Tapping Imagination
- “Sowing the Seeds of God’s Peace”
- Liturgy: Source for Catechesis
- Year of the Eucharist
Enhancing Formation through Innovative Approaches
November 2004
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Formation: Lifelong and Local
- Schooling Our Intelligence
- The Hispanic Catechist: Assessing Our Strengths
- Staying Focused on the Basics
- Personal Spirituality: Theological Reflection on Everyday Ministry
- Raw Material for Spiritual Growth
- Looking at Seven Essentials for the Spiritual Journey
- Eastern Christian Spirituality
The Catechetical Entrepreneur
September 2004
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Let Me Be Your Server: Tim Ragan and the East Coast Conference
- Stepping Stones to New Ways to Work
- Publishing the Word: William H. Sadlier, Inc.; RCL Resources
- for Christian Living; E. T. Nedder Publishing, Inc.
- 10 Making Plain the Way to an Adult Church
- Outsider/Insider:Doing Catechesis on the Road
- Focus on Leadership: Looking Good - Preparing and Delivering Presentations at Conferences
- Lay Ecclesial Ministry: A Work in Progress
- What’s the Buzz about Certification Standards?
- Certifying Parish Pastoral Ministers
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