The catechesis is in trouble these days is a commonplace that requires no lengthy proof. The reasons for the crisis and its results have been frequently and exhaustively treated. In the technical world of man’s making, there is no immediate encounter with the Creator; it is always himself that man encounters first. Its basic...
The person who wants only the God whom he has invented for himself- how is he to be certain that there is a God, how is he to love one who never answers him? But God has come to meet us in our groping search. He speaks to us in the community of faith,...
We are meant to be a pilgrim people of Jesus Christ, ready to face the great examination in which the Lord himself will question us about the faith that should be our life. The responsibility of the apostolate is plainly evident here in its second meaning: the responsibility of parents for the catechesis of...
Since Theology can no longer transmit a common form of belief, catechesis, too, is exposed to fragmentation and constantly changing experimentation. Some catechisms and many catechists no longer teach the Catholic Faith as a harmonious whole, in which each truth presupposes and, at the same time, explains the other, but attempt to make some...
The Imitation of Christ admonishes us: “Even if you knew by heart the whole Bible and the sayings of all the philosophers, what would if profit you without the love of God and his grace?” “Everyone has a natural craving for knowledge, but of what avail is knowledge without the fear of God?” “An...
Source Islamic militants killed 14 Philippine marines searching for a kidnapped Italian priest during a major gunbattle, and later beheaded 10 of them, the military said Wednesday. The troops were ambushed on the southern island of Basilan by a joint force from the Philippines’ main Islamic rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and...
