The prayers of nuns and monks are like "oxygen" for all members of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said. "Their prayer is the invisible force that sustains the mission," he told people at his weekly general audience April 26. As part of
A recent Pew Research Center study caught the eye of many Catholics, despite the fact that the information the study conveyed wasn’t really news. Latinos are disaffiliating from the Catholic Church at alarming rates. The 2022 study reported that only 43% of
Pope Francis has appointed 19 people as members of the Dicastery for Evangelization's first section and has named another 15 as consultants.
The first section, led by Italian Archbishop Rino Fisichella, formally is known as "Section for Fundamental Questions regarding Evangelization in the
Sharing the Gospel requires literally "going out," witnessing to the joy of faith in person and not just sitting at home, being "keyboard warriors" who argue with others online, Pope Francis said.
"One does not proclaim the Gospel standing still, locked in an
“Meta” is a term we hear a lot these days, in many contexts. From the Greek for “beyond,” it often refers to an expanding of horizons, taking something that already exists to new and possibly previously-unconceived-of places. The so-called “metaverse” is a
To evangelize well, the faithful need to dialogue with God, let the Holy Spirit renew their hearts and lives, and then dialogue with today's world, Pope Francis said.
The Holy Spirit is "the protagonist of evangelization. Without the Holy Spirit we will only
The mission to spread the Gospel message of God's love and of salvation in Christ is entrusted to all the baptized who are called to work together and never set out alone, Pope Francis said.
The "ecclesial" dimension of evangelization "is binding and
At Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church in New Orleans, there hangs behind the sanctuary's altar of worship a mural known as the "Dance of Holy Innocence."
But this work, measuring 45 feet high by 25 feet wide, and the church
The recently formed Institute on the Catechism will carry out the U.S. bishops' vision of the importance of "connecting evangelization and catechesis," according to Father Daniel J. Mahan, an Indianapolis archdiocesan priest just named as the institute's director.
The institute is housed within
When asked by OSV News how ChatGPT, a free online AI program that can "talk" to users, can be "used in service of the mission of the Catholic Church, including education and evangelization," the highly-advanced chatbot answered in the affirmative -- and