by Nic Prenger | Mar 24, 2020 | Ministry Tip
There are just so many saints. Everyone has their patrons, their favorites, and the ones they don’t understand. There’s an easy way to systematically introduce parishioners to lesser-known saints or saints with a local connection. Choose four or five who...
by Nic Prenger | Mar 19, 2020 | Tech Tip
St. Simon Sylites is one of the strangest saints we have. He lived on top of a pillar in the middle of a city for decades so he could be “in the world, but not of the world.” He basically had it all – all the joys of city life, but at a bit of a...
by Nic Prenger | Mar 17, 2020 | Ministry Tip
We are living in a time where community bonds are growing weaker, with churches and membership-based organizations losing members at an alarming rate. But Christ has called us to be a Church, a visible community of faith that reaches your neighborhood and across the...
by Nic Prenger | Feb 27, 2020 | Ministry Tip
This era of big data can be overwhelming, but surveys and polls can help your parish in its evangelization efforts. One of the best religious research organizations in America is the Barna Group, which regularly conducts large and well-regarded polls about religious...
by Nic Prenger | Jan 30, 2020 | Ministry Tip
In 2018, St. Mary’s Press shocked the Church in North America when it published its research project, Going, Going Gone: Dynamics of Disaffiliation in Young Catholics. The report showed that most young Catholics who stopped believing or caring about their...
