Faith & App

Loyola University New Orleans has teamed with CNS to use electronic media to promote the Year of Faith. Its Year of Faith Resources have recently begun to be assembled. An app is also available to help people schedule practices, which enrich them and help them grow in faith.

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The Nature of It

Last month began the Year of Faith. Pope Benedict offered it for the entire church. One hope is that Catholics grow in faith. How did Jesus present it in his ministry? How do the gospels continue to present faith? Jesuit Peter Edmonds helps us by “analysing the references to ‘faith’ in Matthew, Mark and Luke” in his contribution at ThinkingFaith today.

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Crucial

Jesuit Dominic Robinson believes

Crucial to our understanding of what we are invited to do in this year [of Faith] is what the last two popes have called the ‘new evangelisation’.

Fr. Robinson touches on several things in his post at ThinkingFaith: the term, new evangelization; its use by Popes Benedict and John Paul; how the term developed from the Second Vatican Council.

Writing from the British Catholic experience, his insights may hold true for all developed countries and for others. “The concept of the new evangelisation is rich, encompassing a variety of themes, but the key to them all is surely dialogue.” Dialogue is important across borders, classes and socioeconomic groupings.

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