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• Help! My Children Aren’t Catholic Anymore! May 20, 2013
  I’m in Indianapolis Indiana leading a parish mission this week, and in the meet and greet session afterwards, the most common conversation I have is with middle aged women who say, “Father, what can I do, my children have stopped practicing the faith!” or  they tell me how their children have married Mormons or Methodists […]
• What’s Killing American Catholicism – 4 May 19, 2013
  Cut Off Catholicism vs. Continuous Catholicism In the midst of composing this series on what’s killing American Catholicism I am not only reading George Weigel’s Evangelical Catholicism and Sherrie Weddell’s Forming Intentional Disciples  but on the flight out to Indianapolis read Russell Shaw’s American Church — The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall and Uncert […]
• Scott Hahn’s Consuming the Word May 17, 2013
  Here’s a book review by guest blogger and catechist Christian LeBlanc. Christian is author of The Bible Tells Me So–a charming and enlightening book to help catechists communicate the faith using the Bible stories. He blogs at Smaller Manhattans. Americans of course remember that we won our War of Independence at Yorktown in 1781, ending a long […]