Whether it’s Thanksgiving Day, Christmas season, or you’re hosting this weekend’s football watch party, being together with family and friends is something to be cherished.

Procrastination and the untimely inconvenience of “last minute” usually results in a loss of my interior peace and sometimes a few choice…words—if truth be told.

Evangelization means reaching out. The Church teaches that evangelization involves going forth and reaching out to others, becoming involved in people’s lives, and accompanying others on life’s journey.

We have all heard the statistics that for every convert we make to the Catholic faith, seven people leave. Perhaps you have also heard that somewhere around 70% of those that enter the Church at the Easter vigil do not consistently attend Mass a year later.

Michel Therrien and Al Kresta discuss the new evangelization and being Christ's mission to the world.

Father Jay Donahue interviews Michel Therrien about his book, The Catholic Faith Explained and his new nonprofit, Preambula Group.

During the Easter season, we have a wonderful opportunity to be ambushed, once again, by the profound depth of God’s mercy in our lives.

In the course of Jesus’ three-year ministry, we see that Jesus always initiated relationships with those he called to himself (Luke 4-5). Indeed, people did come to him, but that is because he made himself accessible, first by going out and then by drawing others to himself through the extraordinary things he did either for people or within their presence.

I would like to distinguish between two ways we can understand how Jesus engaged the people he encountered throughout his earthly ministry.

Why has there been so much focus on the theme of discipleship among Catholics recently? The simplest answer I can proffer is that Pope Francis wrote Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of Gospel).

Why did the apostles leave everything behind to follow Jesus of their own free will? For most, this led eventually to death. What held them to such a determined change of direction for their lives?