Teaching Students to Show Reverence at Mass
The Mass is rich with tradition and meaning.
God’s Sacramental Plan: Why we need the Sacraments and the Church
The big picture on why we need sacraments and the Church
BY MARC CARDARONELLA
Sacraments form the backbone of our religious formation programs. Parents celebrate them,...
The Heart of the Message of Fatima
By Virginia M. Kimball
Pray, fast, confess, receive the Eucharist, and be devoted to the Immaculate Heart
One hundred years ago, in 1917, three years...
A Robust Catholic Identity
By Joe Paprocki
Overcoming the tendency toward a “beige Catholicism”
One of my favorite ideas to borrow from Bishop Robert Barron, is his notion of battling what...
The Catechist with a Green Halo
Using Aristotelian concepts as a teaching method
AARON T. MARTIN
One of the most beautiful churches in the country stands at Lexington Avenue and 66th Street...
The Family that Prays Together Stays Together
SUSIE LLOYD
There’s a famous saying, “The family that prays together stays together.” My parents had this quote on a plaque hanging on the wall...
Advice from a Master Catechist: Understanding Relics
Question: The Catholic newspaper in my area has been advertising different opportunities to venerate a certain saint’s relics that will be traveling to our...
The Time-Honored Sign of the Cross
Q: Some non-Catholics have criticized the gesture of the Sign of the Cross as either an empty ritual, something superstitious, or worse. Any advice...
More Than Math!
How Catechists Teach Differently Than Any Other Kind of Teacher
Jared Dees
When I first started out as a religious educator, I used to be envious...
The Ten Commandments: Road Map to Salvation
EVELYN S. MAUTNER
Cecil B. DeMille's epic movie, The Ten Commandments (Paramount, 1956), is not steeped in Biblical scholarship, but many Catholics remember seeing it more...
