Upcoming Catechist Formation Opportunities
I will be offering two learning opportunities aimed at catechests in the coming months: The first is a one-hour webinar on social networking. This webinar will offer an overview of social networking for beginners with a special emphasis on implications for Catholic educators and catechists. I will take a brief look at the Church’s teaching on social media, examine the most popular social networking sites, and offer guidelines for getting started in the world of social networking. While the primary audience will be teachers and catechists from the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois,...
Read MoreBook Review: Treasures Old and New
I’ve said before that one of the gifts post-Boomer Catholics are bringing to the Church is a reappropriation of faith traditions that were largely abandoned following the Second Vatican Council. While many of us never experienced the rosary, novenas or Eucharistic adoration as children, we are finding them invaluable practices as we grow into faith-filled adults. That today’s young faithful are rediscovering and embracing these traditions — in the context of their modern lives — completes, in many ways, the promises of ressourcement and aggiornamento that were the...
Read MoreOn the Usefulness of Death Panels
It seems to me that, in the cacophony of debate surrounding health care reform and the so-called “death panels,” that a simple foundational reality has eluded some people: Death panels would be immeasurably useful in modern American society. Which is to say, they are useful in a society that has largely abandoned the traditional family and the network of support it ensures. In the past, the elderly were largely taken care of by relatives — usually adult children — in the context of an extended network of family who lived in geographical proximity to one another. There...
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