The innermost core of the religious education problem is the why.
William J. OMalley
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Accessible Holiness: The good news: We’re all invited. The bad news: It takes effort.
Jesus loves imperfect people. On that score, all of us qualify.
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Understanding Sex Before Sin
Who can tell me what I can do with my own body? The church? “Society”? The Bible? Playboy? A catechist? “Sex and the City”? With the high school students I teach, only one answer works: the objective facts and honest reasoning. Only the objective facts decide which of those c
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Plow Before You Plant: Our first goal should be not doctrinal thoroughness but conversion.
If Booth Tarkington wrote Seventeen today, he’d have to call it Ten. Yet those in charge of Catholic catechesis, judging from their directories and vetting of texts, urge us to teach the young as if their families still routinely attend Sunday Benediction. Someone should inform the front offic