Suspicious motives…?
This is a question often raised regarding people who come to RCIA: they just want to jump through the hoops, get their child into a…
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Top Ten RCIA Traps
Recently a number of conversations with different people have highlighted for me that in many parish RCIA processes there are still some fairly dismal practices…
Peer Ministry
One thing I have learnt through my involvement with Youth 2000 is that nothing works better than young people evangelising young people. This was how…
More Saints
Continuing the theme of some wonderful twentieth-century saints, here is some more on my personal favourite, Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. Again, I gave this talk…
What makes a good catechist?
As spiritual reading at the moment I’m reading Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard’s Inner Strength for Active Apostles, which was originally published in 1918 and is a…
The Holiness of God in the Lives …
Yesterday evening I gave a short talk as part of the Faith Matters series, a catechetical series put on in the Westminster Diocese which this…
The Newness of the Gospel Message
It seems to be increasingly common that we meet someone who has no idea what the Christian message is. Even though we are aware of…