by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 16, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Belleville, IL. Here is a picture from a recent event for the homeless at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Belleville, Illinois. The St. Paul Street Evangelization St. Louis – Downtown / Belleville team was present by invitation. The night started with soup and...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 15, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Bloomington, IN. Recently, on the campus of Indiana University, SPSE national director Steve talked to young lady from the church of Christ for about twenty minutes about the Catholic Church. He explained its founding by Jesus Christ, the “keys to the kingdom” granted...
by | Jan 14, 2016 | Apologetics
Are All Churches the Same? Plymouth, MI. Are all churches basically the same? Does it matter which church you belong to? On the one hand, it can seem like maybe it doesn’t matter. Salvation comes from living faith in Jesus Christ, and many churches seem to inculcate...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 8, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Plymouth, MI. You’d expect that Buddhists wouldn’t know the Catholic faith, but what about Catholic girls coming from Mass? Here’s a report from our Plymouth, Michigan team: “We had a Buddhist gentleman and his little sister who told us how they believed in...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 7, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Plymouth, MI. Doing the work of street evangelization serve to continually remind us that there are many people who would believe and follow the truth if only somebody would take a small amount of time and effort to share it with them. A team evangelizing in Michigan,...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 6, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Austin, TX. We recently had a training for a large group in Austin, Texas, for the diocese’s Office of Vocations. There were 56 men in training for the deaconate, and their wives. Here is a “theological reflection” from Dan, one of the candidates for diaconate, and...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 5, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Decatur, GA. A person’s outward appearance is one thing, but his inner life is something else. Sometimes we falsely think that changing things externally will “fix” our internal unhappiness. It may be the clothing we wear, the way we walk or talk, the friends we...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 4, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Bloomington, IN. The priest, in a special way, is called to evangelize. In 2010, speaking of the three offices of the priest, Pope Benedict XVI said, “The Lord has entrusted a great task to priests: to be heralds of his word, of the Truth that saves; to be his voice...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 3, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Baltimore, MD. Many people look for signs from God. Some of these people need no sign; they know what they should do, but they ask for signs as a way of avoiding God. As Christ said, “A wicked and perverse generation seeks a sign. But no sign will be given it except...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 2, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Berkeley, CA. With the world the way it is, it can be tempting to think that the average person has no interest in becoming a Christian, entering the Church, and living a new life in Christ. It is tempting to see all the opposition to the faith and conclude that it is...
