New numbers from the Pew Research Center continue to outline a bleak future for believers. The rise in the religiously unaffiliated — the “nones” — continues and now has climbed to 26 percent. To put it into absolute numerical terms, the number
What would the world be like without the enthusiasm of young people? Quiet. In this week’s Openers, managing editor Scott Warden is reminded how the energy of young people at Mass and parish gatherings are the future and should be encouraged.
Parents must pray that their children embrace and persevere in the gift of faith received at baptism
Gift of faith allows us to experience the depths of reality that go beyond what we can see
I recently finished reading Walker Percy’s second novel, “The Last Gentleman.” I don’t remember having read it before, though the copy that I’ve owned since college some 30 years ago has marks in the margin that I recognize as mine.
There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about the problem of the “nones” — the rise of the unaffiliated millennials — who have left religion behind (assuming they ever were religious in the first place). The phenomenon spread to the
If the way faith is presented doesn’t evolve with children as they mature, they may lose it.
From the 17th-century ban by the Vatican of Copernicus' mathematical calculation that the sun was at the center of the solar system to modern-day arguments about evolution's compatibility with a belief in God, science and faith have regularly butted heads in the
It’s cold outside, and the kids are nuts. They want to be on iPads and phones and gaming devices all the time. What’s a parent to do? Plan a family night — an evening full of activities that everyone can join in.
I’m not sure where I first heard the suggestion that Christians need to think about the word “joy” as an acronym: Jesus first, others second, yourself last. This explanation hit so close to home that, to this day, the catchy phrase