U.S. pilgrims at Jubilee of Catechists have private audience with pope September 29, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News Among the estimated 20,000 pilgrims in Rome for the Jubilee of Catechists, a group of three dozen from the United States had their own private audience with Pope Leo XIV.
Pastoral retreat calls Baltimore church leaders to renewal and confidence September 23, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News, Seek the City to Come The Acts XXIX team – Father Riccardo, Mary Guilfoyle, Albert Faraj and Rick Popp – traveled from Michigan to lead the day of renewal. The nonprofit offers retreats, programs, podcasts and videos aimed at evangelization and helping people encounter the Gospel.
Can AI help the church evangelize? August 7, 2025By Sister Nancy Usslemann OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Evangelization Perhaps not everyone finds the need to launch into the latest tech trend; however, the church herself must be present in the culture to be able to evangelize it from within.
Radio Interview: Books and Authors: Inspiring Trailblazers June 16, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Books, CR Radio, Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with two authors whose books feature literal and spiritual trailblazers.
Pew: Christianity up in sub-Saharan Africa, down worldwide due to those leaving the faith June 13, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, World News Sub-Saharan Africa has replaced Europe as the locus for the world’s Christians, due to both higher birthrates and Western Europe’s “widespread Christian disaffiliation” — with Christians declining as a share of the world’s population due to adherents leaving the faith, according to new research by the Pew Research Center.
Hundreds gather at Rebuilt Conference 2025 to ‘imagine what’s possible’ in parish ministry June 10, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News Rebuilt Conference 2025, with the theme “Can You Imagine,” asked the priests, parish leaders and volunteers present from all around the country and beyond, to imagine their congregations thriving with active parishioners and sufficient funding.
Archbishop Fisher declares a ‘second spring’ of faith in Sydney and beyond June 4, 2025By Darren Ally OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, News, World News In a compelling address to the Sydney Catholic Business Network, Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney revealed that a “second spring” of Catholic faith is underway across Sydney and beyond, challenging popular narratives of religious decline.
Reach out to families; let them know God loves them, pope says June 2, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church, its ministers and its members must find new ways to reach out to and welcome families who are distant from the church and have no understanding of how much God loves them, Pope Leo XIV said.
Missionary discipleship contributes to peacemaking, pope says May 22, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, Missions, News, Vatican, World News Recognizing themselves as members of the one body of Christ, all Catholics should sense an urgency to share the Gospel message of God’s love with others and to welcome them as brothers and sisters, Pope Leo XIV said.
Pope encourages Christian Brothers to evangelize through education May 15, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, News, Vatican, World News Teaching should be lived as ministry and mission, Pope Leo XIV told the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as the De La Salle Brothers or the Christian Brothers.
Missionary discipleship sees growth after Seek the City initiative May 8, 2025By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News, Seek the City to Come Across the Archdiocese of Baltimore, a renewed call to missionary discipleship is taking root. It is most recently outlined in “A Light Brightly Visible 3.0,” a pastoral letter released Ash Wednesday by Archbishop William E. Lori, and was the foundation of the archdiocese’s Seek the City to Come pastoral planning initiative that merged 61 Baltimore-area parishes into 30 worship sites.
At D.C. pilgrimage, Asian and Pacific Island Catholics asked to bring Christ to world May 6, 2025By Mark Zimmermann Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Evangelization, News, World News The estimated 600 to 700 people at the 22nd Asian and Pacific Island Catholics Marian Pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception May 3 came from several different states and with family roots in many different countries, all united in faith for a single purpose.
