As 2025 comes to a close, Lifeway Christian Resources reflects on a year marked by leadership transition, expanding ministry ...

Indigenous women attend Pope Francis' celebration of a Mass marking World Mission Day in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 20, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Every Christian ...

We’ve heard the Great Commission many times. We may even be able to recite these words of Jesus. But do we believe them? By that, I mean, “Do we seek to obey Christ’s command in the Great Commission?

“I am with you always, to the very end of the age” (Matthew 28:20). These are the last words of Matthew’s gospel. Jesus has completed his mission of salvation and is returning to the Father. These ...

“Go Make Disciples” is the new, five-year vision statement of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, Archbishop Paul Coakley recently announced in a pastoral letter. The vision statement is the fruit of a ...

A friend reports the story of a woman, widowed from a Catholic husband with two small children. Honoring her pledge to raise her children as Catholics, she inquired whether she too might become a ...

As the resurrected Christ spoke to his followers, he commanded them to go into all nations to preach the gospel and make disciples, teaching them to obey all he commanded them. In modern Western ...

The crucial first step of ministry begins with the Holy Spirit. Twelve years ago, I was an energetic campus minister leading outreach to college students at Fresno State. I longed to see their lives ...

Every Christian is called to be a missionary, sharing the good news of salvation in Christ and making disciples for him, not for oneself or one's clique of like-minded believers, Pope Francis said.