Commentary: Often our evangelization efforts are linked with bad theology and clerical attitudes. A better approach would be to realize that everything we do as Catholics is a touchpoint of evangelization.
Young Voices: I have learned to embrace what I think evangelization means, even if I still get the heebie-jeebies a little when I say it. Here are three points that have helped bring me around.
We say: In the abuse crisis, it is not the sins of the individuals that should now be the focus. It is the institutional corruption that they came to represent.
Distinctly Catholic: U.S. Catholic life in 2018 was marked by two major stories, one a reprise and the other just beginning, and one story that did not happen, the ecclesial dog that did not bark.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Penance for "little monsters"; taxes on nonprofit parking lots; Mulvaney's "odio a Puerto Rico"; Ratzinger on new evangelization
Distinctly Catholic: You could have a field day comparing what George Weigel wrote about national bishops' conferences during John Paul II's pontificate to what he writes now.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: "Jesus Christ Superstar" and evangelization; Democratic strategies; disaster disparity; heralds of misguided economic ideology.
Part 3 of 3: A new pilot program is sending FOCUS missionaries to implement "Win, build, send" in parishes, similar to the organization's current model on college campuses.
