Children on Mission
A Church-sponsored Approach for Engaging Children in the Missionary Task
MAUREEN CROWLEY HEIL
Each year, through the programs and lessons of the Missionary Childhood Association (formerly...
Go Forth to Bring Peace with Love
A Lesson for Families from St. Teresa of Calcutta
SUSIE LLOYD
I once visited one of the houses of the Missionaries of Charity, the community founded...
What Catholics Should Know About Ordinary Time
BY DONNA FRASIER
If you think of the liturgical calendar as the “circle of life”, the mystery of Christ unfolds. The significance and beauty of...
Missionary Childhood Association and Catechist featured on Catholic TV
Thank you to Maureen Crowley Heil, who recently penned an article for Catechist on "Children on Mission." Maureen shared Catechist magazine in her recent interview about...
PDF: “Being versus Doing”: A Retreat for Catechists
Here's the PDF of this article that appeared in Catechist magazine, October, 2017.
Click on the link below to open the PDF, then select print...
5 Tips for Engaging Young Adults
A professor at Loyola Institute of Ministry offers advice
BETH DONZE
It’s a refrain heard repeatedly in Catholic Church parishes across the country: “We would like...
I Can Use Technology in My Ministry!
"I would like then to invite Christians, confidently and with an informed and responsible creativity, to join the network of relationships which the digital era has made possible. This is not simply to satisfy the desire to be present, but because this network is an integral part of human life."
A Lot To Offer: a recap of the recent Synod
A look at the Synod on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment
KATIE PREJEAN McGRADY
I was in the midst of changing my four-month-old daughter’s...
The Vision of “The Joy of Adolescent Catechesis”
Reimagining Ministry to Youth
Denise Utter
The Partnership for Adolescent Catechesis (NFCYM, NCEA, NCCL), in collaboration with pastoral and catechetical leaders from around the country, wrote...
The Inestimable Importance of Christian Families
An urgent and compelling catechetical mission
PAT GOHN
I find myself thinking of Jesus' birth, for nowhere else do I see the sublime place of families...












