AI offers the church an ‘evangelical opportunity,’ scholar tells U.S. bishops November 18, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Evangelization, News, Uncategorized, World News Paul Scherz, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, shared his insights in a Nov. 12 address he gave regarding the problems and the potential of AI during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall meeting, which took place Nov. 10-13 in Baltimore.
New director of Office of Life, Justice and Peace hopes to promote dignity of all November 10, 2025By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life Collin Kourtz, a 34-year-old Virginia native who earned an engineering degree from Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, took on his new role this fall in the archdiocese’s Institute for Evangelization, succeeding Erin Younkins.
Pope Leo XIV urges Catholic technologists to spread the Gospel with AI November 7, 2025By Robert Duncan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV said artificial intelligence should support the church’s mission of evangelization, urging Catholic technologists and venture capitalists gathered in Rome to build systems that help spread the Gospel.
Radio Interview: Catholic Extension Society provides mission support in dioceses across country October 27, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: CR Radio, Evangelization, Feature, Local News, Missions, News, Radio Interview Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talked with Father Jack Wall about the ways that Catholic Extension helps almost half of the dioceses in the U.S. find the resources they need to ensure the church is vibrant and transformative in those areas.
‘Hello! I’m a Catholic Priest!’ How one coffee shop ministry attracts student seekers October 26, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Evangelization, News, World News “Hello! I’m a Catholic Priest!” greets the cheerful, large-font sign taped to the back of the laptop computer of Father Richard Miserendino, chaplain of the University of Mary Washington’s Catholic Campus Ministry and a priest in the Diocese of Arlington, Va.
Father Mike Schmitz invites listeners to enter ‘The Imitation of Christ’ with new podcast October 26, 2025By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, News, Scouting, World News A centuries-old devotional book, said to be the second most circulated in the history of Christianity after the Bible, is, perhaps fittingly, the work that Father Mike Schmitz of “The Bible in a Year” fame had long hoped to focus on in a podcast.
Catholic coffee shops serve up God’s love nationwide October 24, 2025By Katie Yoder OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, World News Coffee shops associated with Catholic churches and organizations are opening around the country in order to build community and share God’s love.
Young adults invited to attend Lumen Ecclesiae October 23, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News, Young Adult Ministry Inspired by Archbishop William E. Lori’s Seek the City to Come pastoral planning initiative and his pastoral letters, “A Light Brightly Visible,” which call for evangelization and missionary discipleship, the Dominican Friars of Baltimore are launching a new Catholic event for young adults: “Lumen Ecclesiae – Light of the Church.”
New Barna study shows fellowship, discipleship are key to fostering resilient faith October 22, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, News, World News Recent study results from the Barna Group — a leading marketing research firm focused on the intersection between faith and culture — confirm what the Gospels already tell us: Faith grows best in fellowship.
New virtual summit in October aims to empower church’s digital evangelization October 18, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, News, social media, World News Twenty years ago when Josh Simmons founded eCatholic, which builds websites and technology tools to serve the church’s evangelizing mission, he was a 26-year-old former youth ministry leader struggling to support his family, and he worked alone.
With street corner ministry, Minnesota man says he’s doing what Lord has asked of him October 17, 2025By Dianne Towalski The Central Minnesota Catholic Filed Under: Evangelization, News, World News Standing on a streetcorner greeting passersby is not something Will Threlkeld has ever done before. But every Monday morning in downtown Little Falls, that’s exactly where you can find him, greeting people and showing them the face of Jesus.
The life of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, 130 years after his birth October 15, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Evangelization, Saints Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. Once dubbed “God’s microphone,” Sheen announced God’s truth in a nonconfrontational, yet no less life-giving, manner to untold millions through radio, print and television.
