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Pastoral heartbreak: young adults leaving evangelicalism for Orthodoxy and Catholicism

From The Pastor’s Heart – Pastoral heartbreak: young adults leaving evangelicalism for Orthodoxy and Catholicism and what to do about it, with John Diacos. “On the surface, some ar...

Have American Catholics Given Up on Evangelizing?

Francis X. Maier, First Things Here's a simple, biblical truth: We're never as smart as we think we are, and we're never as wise as we need to be. The best intentions can have uni...

How Parishes Can Tell Whether Conversions Are Well Rooted

The recent talk of a Catholic revival has stirred real hope, but hope needs discernment if it’s going to serve the Church well. Last Easter, many priests, parish leaders, and Catho...

A Catholic Moment or an Evangelical Century?

Timon Cline, First Things Contrary to online chatter, we are not in a "Catholic moment." But we may already be in an evangelical century. Significantly more people are leaving...

“Excommunicated!” When the Roman prevails over the Catholic

Roman Catholicism oscillates between the Roman and the Catholic. Its catholicity is not defined b...

Overcome the Age of the Embarrassed Catholic

A good number of modern Catholics often speak about their faith as if they were hostages reading from a prepared statement. Simply repeating Church teaching has never been enough o...

Catholic 07.20.26

When we — Baptists and Methodists — were all evangelical

It may now seem surprising to many United Methodists, and even more Baptists, that for most of our histories in the United States, all Methodists and Baptists were regularly design...

Catholic 08.10.26

Why did the Church change overnight? Father Nix

Vatican II cannot be your reason for overhauling everything Catholics once believed. Father David Nix, who converted from liberal to conservative to traditional Catholicism, has se...

Wednesday's Catch: 'Reaching Every Nation Next Door' And More

Reaching Every Nation Next Door Reaching every nation next door calls for patience, consistent prayer, and courage to move beyond what feels familiar. Free eBook: Three Habits for...

Southern Dioceses Confront the Challenges of Rapid Catholic Growth

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How a psychic, New Age hippie led me to Catholicism

In 1993, I moved to an industrial city north of Prague, about 30 miles from the Czech/German border. Usti nad Labem had been around for almost a thousand years, but after half a ce...

Paul Revere Became Catholic (The Patriot’s Great-Grandson, That Is)

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Is Catholicism WOKE?

The Young Catholic Elite Poised to Take Over MAGA

For J.D. Vance and his co-religionists in Washington, faith is a powerful means of ascent.

Anglican Monastic Community Converts to Catholicism: The Inspiring Story of Faith and Perseverance of Twelve Women

The twelve nuns were received into the Catholic Church on January 1, 2013. The process took four years, and they faced a lack of understanding and painful opposition from many of t...

In or Out? Roman Catholic attitudes towards the Christians “on the threshold”

For the Gospel, the threshold is a place of transition, not of lingering. It is a one-way passage...

‘Forming Intentional Disciples’: The Book That Changed Catholic Ministry

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Catholic 07.13.26

5 Heroes of American Catholicism

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Where did the evangelism of evangelicals go?

The evangelical embrace of secular politics has changed what counts as evangelism. The cultural wars, with their anger, outrage and hyperbole, have proved intoxicating to the previ...