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Becoming a Reconciling Community
(1996)It is impossible to serve the needs of alienated and inactive Roman Catholics through the RCIA program. A process to enable alienated and inactive Roman Catholics to become active members of the church again is ... -
Belt Woods Needs You! Pulling Together in Loving Relationship with the Land
(2006)From the fall of 2004, through early spring of 2006, I enlisted the help of high school and college students, and adults, for an ongoing restoration effort to remove exotic, invasive plants from Belt Woods Wildland, a ... -
Beyond Mystagogy
(2000)A formal process of conversion to Christianity can be directly traced back to the fourth century through the writing of Church Fathers such as Cyril of Jerusalem, Ambrose, and John Chrysostom’. Unfortunately, the problem ... -
The Black Experience in the Kaleidoscope Of Contemporary Pastoral Concerns
(1991)Theology is the expression of a people's relationship to God and God to them. The Black approach to theology is rooted in a positive self-identification and affirms Black history and includes this people's destiny in ... -
The Block Project: Supplemental Materials for 6th Grade Religious Education
(2011)The idea for this project came from a discussion with the Director of Religious Education at our parish. We were discussing the needs of the religious education program surrounding the directive from the Archdiocese to ... -
Bringing Three Community Hospitals Into a Roman Catholic Healthcare System: Partnering of Chief Executive Officer And Senior Vice President of Mission For Major Organizational Change
(2008)This project centers on the formation aspects of the merger/acquisition of a Catholic hospital and a non-faith-based, not-for-profit, three hospital health system. In the situation presented in this project the Catholic ... -
Building a Faith Relationship Between Sister Parishes
(1993)At the present time there is very little information in print about creating the relationship of Sister Parish between one parish in the United States and another in some quite different culture, perhaps in another ... -
Building Community Beyond Mass St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church
(2008)St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church was once a dynamic and closely-knit faith community mainly comprised of growing families. The parishioners had accomplished some amazing goals in their fifty plus year history. They ... -
The Cancer Connection: Formation of a Cancer Support Group
(2007)Although there is no guarantee — as evidenced by numerous wars — that people living together will do so in harmony or in a sense of community, or that people who live alone are necessarily lonely or without any sense of ... -
A Candle's Always Burning: A Welcoming Back of Young Adults to the Catholic Church
(1997)The Catholic Church faces a crisis in the inactivity of its young adults (late teens, twenties and thirties). There are fourteen to sixteen million inactive Catholics in America today (Inactive Catholics: Why They Leave ... -
Caterpillar Kids: Support for Children in the Journey of Grief
(1995)Various models for children's bereavement support programs exist and are available for imitation. One such program which is widely respected in the Indianapolis area is the "Rainbow Seekers” Program developed by St. ... -
Catholic Social Teaching: Foundations and Content
(1988)What I propose to do is to create a resource document, accompanied by a bibliography, which provides an outline and summary of Catholic social teaching, and which can be used by those who work with adult groups: RCIA ... -
Cenacle Sessions: A Modern Mystagogia
(1987)Cenacle Sessions: A Modern Mystagogia has been developed in an effort to answer the pastoral need for an effective mystagogia in today's Church. Like the RCIA itself, Cenacle Sessions is designed to be flexible -- adaptable ... -
Cherish the Children & Pass on the Faith: A New Model of Faith Formation for Children and Youth Rooted in Parental Participation At Christ the King Parish
(2012)A pastoral project presented on the challenges facing Christ the King Parish, and the American Catholic Church, as we strive to pass on the faith. We are at a moment in time which requires action, if we hope to successfully ... -
Child Care in Kankakee
(1997)The prioress general and the general council of the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois are the members of a corporation entitled the Cardinal Stritch Home; as such they constitute the board of directors. The ... -
Children Come to the Light
(2006)"Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:3-4) Children have ... -
Christian Initiation for Linked Parishes
(1996)"Evangelization is necessary for Christian initiation. Men and women hear the gospel proclaimed, by word and deed, and come to a particular Christian community as a result of this initial stirring faith. The process ... -
Comfort my People: Parish Ministry to the Grieving
(1993)Loss is a part of human life and the response to loss is the painful experience we call sorrowing, mourning, or grieving. The more we value what was lost, the greater the intensity of the grief. The death of a family ... -
Companioning the Bereaved: The Development of a Framework for Congregations
(2009)My goal for this project is to develop a framework for a grief ministry that congregations may utilize. This goal will offer a theological reflective opportunity through Scripture to recognize God’s role in our grieving ...