The Million-Dollar Question

SPSE’s National Director, Steve Dawson, joined evangelist Julian for Catholic street evangelization in downtown Detroit last weekend. On several occasions during the outing, in the severe cold, the evangelists felt that the Holy Spirit was using them to bear fruit for...

“Circle of Warmth”

Encouragement came to our Boise team from a surprising source this week. Boiseans tend to huddle inside in bad weather. And the city had been caught in relatively extreme, below-freezing temperatures for days. Plus, it snowed again just that morning (stopping, praise...

Fr. Fox on Believing Christ’s Church

HOMILY, Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time February 1, 2015 Fr. Charlie Fox, Spiritual Director, St. Paul Street Evangelization (www.streetevangelization.com) Why should I believe the Church? When I was a boy, probably around 12 years-old, my Grandpa Murphy gave me my...

One Church

Three Phoenix-area teams evangelized together at Mesa’s annual MLK festival, attended mostly by non-Catholic Christians. But, by the end of the day, so many ended up carrying Rosaries (and Catholic tracts) that it looked like a giant Catholic prayer meeting! Before...

Catholic Teens in DC

Teens from the Diocese of Lansing, MI, went to the national March for Life in Washington, DC, joining hundreds of thousands of others on the anniversary of the Roe vs Wade decision. The young Catholics were led by SPSE program director, Adam Janke, who has brought...

The Answer to Fear

SPSE’s San Francisco team found the Civic Center a great place to encounter people of ALL types: professionals, city and county employees, lawyers, law students, professors, homeless, and local residents. But what did the team say? What one thing did most all have in...

Fr. Fox on the Gospel: Repent, Believe, and Fish!

HOMILY, Third Sunday of Ordinary Time: January 25, 2015 Fr. Charlie Fox, Spiritual Director, St. Paul Street Evangelization (www.streetevangelization.com) Repent, believe…and fish? In today’s Gospel we cross a kind of boundary line, and begin to see John the Baptist...