"Dear Priests, Please Teach Us..."

[DameAgnes]

College student pleads for instruction from the pulpit: "We’re just figuring out that nothing on earth can satisfy us; tell us why."

http://aleteia.org/2016/03/22/dear-priests-please-teach-us/

[truthfinder]

Thanks for posting this Dame Agnes. I thought the article was good but I was a bit disheartened by some of the comments saying that homilies weren't places for priests to explain teaching. 

It's been a personal experience that priests who do indeed preach in the way she asks for or don't water down the teaching do have younger congregants who are committed. 

[DameAgnes]

I agree with you. The homilies people seem to respond to the best, at least in my parish, are the homilies where what we believe is spelled out. A lot of Catholics actually don't know what it is they don't know.

[CatherineM]

I'm a big proponent of adult education. The Code of Canon Law came out in 1983, the Theology of the Body in the 90's, and the Catechism in 1992. So most Catholics were out of school before then.