Fr michael keating new evangelization television

I was very impressed by Fr. His delivery and confidence added a great deal to his presentation. This is a topic that engenders strong feelings due to the politics involved. Keating's slow, smooth delivery went a long way in creating an atmosphere where ideas could emerge without being either inciting of conflict or capitulating against a group that often appears aggressive.

I noticed Fr. Keating never mentioned the state of Israel or any of the current political situations.

The CLM is attempting to do what Pope John Paul II called “the new evangelization” by spreading the Gospel to people who have probably already heard it before.

Looking back, I see that as a very shrewd way of organizing. Politics and events change, the important elements to understand are the overarching concepts and philosophies which drive the forces of culture and nations. As a veteran spending alot of time in Bosnia and Iraq, I think Fr. Keating hit some very good points in cultural understanding.

The only things I would have taken issue with I believe were the results of "Cliff Noting" to fit the time period. The Crusades in the Baltic, though, were the first part of the occidents later so known colonial venture.

Small groups have come back into vogue for Catholics over the past decade, but they've met a powerful foe in COVID

They were directed at generally small principality based pagans, also against Lithuania, pagan but patronising Orthodox subjects, but also against the Orthodox subjects of this Lithuania or Orthodox elsewhere and against even the Latin Archbishop of Riga, when he on orders of Pope John XXII had peace with Lithuania. They were also a prelude to the Reformation, of sad memory, in those countries.

Orange, of equal or worse repute as reformed religion dynasty, is in Avignon country and had a heroic past in the First Crusade. Do not overdo the difference: "The Bible is seen as inspired, with a human and divine element which we must grapple with interpreting.