Renewing Catholic Family Life: Experts Explore New Directions in Family Spirituality and Family Ministry

by Gregory K. Popcak

Publisher:

Our Sunday Visitor

, 2020

Overview

A collection of essays from the Catholic Family Life Symposium in July 2019 sponsored by OSV Institute and held at the University of Notre Dame campus brings together internationally recognized theologians, social scientists, and pastoral ministry professionals to explore the renewal of Catholic family life.

The contributors to this book explored four historic questions:

1. How are Catholic parents and children called to relate differently to each other than their non-Catholic counterparts?
2. What does an authentic domestic-church-based spirituality look like?
3. How can Catholic families be more effective forges of intentional discipleship and do a better job of raising the next generation of intentional disciples?
4. How can Catholic families fulfill their role to be the primary outposts of evangelization and positive social change?

These questions are explored in a systematic way from a broad-based, interdisciplinary perspective. Readers will discover not only the challenges facing faithful families, but practical, empirically-based responses to those challenges, including the outline of the Liturgy of Domestic Church Life, a new model of family spirituality that allows families to bring Jesus home and experience the faith as the source of warmth in their homes.

Key Features

• Explores the renewal of Catholic family life.
• Shows an authentic domestic-church-based spirituality.
• Discovers the challenges facing faithful families.

Product Details

• Title: Renewing Catholic Family Life:Experts Explore New Directions in Family Spirituality and Family Ministr
• Author: Gregory K. Popcak
• Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Pages: 488
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781681926773, 1681926776
• Resource ID: LLS:RNWNGCTHLCMNSTR
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-12-06T18:26:41Z

About Gregory K. Popcak

Gregory K. Popcak is the Founder and Executive Director of the Pastoral Solutions Institute. The author of almost 20 popular books & programs integrating solid Catholic theology and counseling psychology, he is an expert on the practical applications of Pope John Paul the Great’s Theology of the Body. Together with his wife, Lisa, he hosts More2Life Radio, a call-in, advice program heard M-F at 10am E/ 9amC on almost 400 stations affiliated with the EWTN radio network and SiriusXM Satellite Radio Channel 130.

Dr. Popcak is a Fellow of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (FAAPC), a Board Certified Diplomate (BCD) of the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work, and a winner of the Fr. Richard M. Hogan Award for Contributions to the Social Sciences. He is the Chair of the Marriage and Family Studies program at Holy Apostles College and Seminary and serves as an adjunct professor of both psychology and graduate theology at Franciscan University. Dr. Popcak’s articles appear regularly in various Catholic periodicals and his work has been featured on FoxNews, NPR’s Here and Now, the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Ladies Home Journal, and The National Enquirer.  Featured speakers at the 2015 World Meeting of Families, Dr. Greg Popcak and Lisa Popcak have been honored to address audiences across North America, as well as Australia, and Hong Kong.