Evangelization Update

Catholics believe:*

The human person is not only sacred but inherently social.

No community is more central than the family; it is the basic cell of society.

We have the right and responsibility to participate in and contribute to the broader communities in society.

A central test of political, legal and economic institutions is what they do to people, what they do for people and how people participate in them.

What are the needs and pressures on family life today?

What are some of the ways our parish can help families deal with these needs and pressures?

To return to "How God Is Calling You to Make a Difference in the World"

To return to the beginning of this Evangeliization Update

* In addition to the minutes of a Glenmary Commission on Evangelization meeting, questions and statements are from a workshop based on the video In the Footsteps of Jesus by the USCCB and Lay Ministers, Lay Disciples: Evangelizing Power in the Parish by Susan Blum-Gerding, Ed.D and Frank DeSiano, C.S.P., Paulist Press, 1999. The workshop is the work of the Social Action Committee of Immaculate Conception Church, Pulaski, TN.

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