EVANGELIZING THROUGH CATHOLIC SCHOOLS - Evangelizando a través de las escuelas Católicas

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

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  The Most Rev. Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix.

Ample research has shown that a great majority of young people are leaving the Church before age 22 and choosing to never return. Many studies have been done on the Millennial Generation to discover their affinity (or lack thereof) to the Christian Faith. The Church’s response to this lack of faith is the New Evangelization. In 1990, Pope John Paul II issued his encyclical letter Mission of the Redeemer, in which he said, “I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization …. No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.” All his successors, including Pope Francis, have enthusiastically endorsed and continued to issue this clarion call. To that end, one may wonder, “How does a Catholic school evangelize?”

Catholic schools assist the Church in her mission of evangelization in 5 ways:

1. to be a place of encounter with the living Jesus Christ;
2. to be places of Spirit-filled community;
3. to impart a Catholic worldview through the curriculum;
4. to assist students in becoming free; and
5. to send students out as missionary disciples to transform the culture.

Let us explore each of these briefly.

 https://dphx.org/evangelizing-through-catholic-schools/

 EVANGELIZANDO A TRAVÉS DE LAS ESCUELAS CATÓLICAS