Young Catholics consistently drift away
from the Church in their thousands.

Is there a solution for this crisis?
Of course there is!

According to official Church figures, 95% of teenagers in our Catholic school system leave the Church.

In the Record newspaper, Archbishop Barry Hickey referred to “A particular Catholic secondary school,” where “not one boy or girl in Year 12 went to Mass. This floored me”, he continued. “I had no idea how bad the situation had become. “The loss of young people to the active life of the Church will have catastrophic long term effects on our Catholic population if we do not address it with energy, wisdom and prayer.”
(Record, 21.8.03)

At most, 15% of Catholics still go to Mass. The paper also reported that “The average weekly attendance in Australia declined by 100,000 between 1996 and 2001, an average decline of 20,000 a year”… “There was no evidence of this trend being reversed.” (1.5.03).

Let’s face it: Decades of poor or no moral teaching in most Catholic schools; a sorely defective Catecheses; lack of proper formation for parents in many parishes and associations surely have something to do with it.

Whatever excuse one may come up with to explain away this catastrophe, the hard truth is that, by and large, we Catholics no longer pass the Faith on to the next generations as we used to.

Yet, good news is coming! Read on:

We must agree with Archbishop Hickey when he said, “We have to admit that the drift away from the Church will continue [unless] new initiatives that we have not even thought of yet come from our common consideration of the problems the Church is facing”. His Grace made it very clear that “Every Catholic has a duty to participate in evangelisation for the sake of their friends, family and society”.

What new initiative could be started to respond to the challenge?
How could you be involved in it?

How many Catholics grieve as they see their children losing the Faith, their relatives joining anti-Catholic sects, their friends saying that they no longer believe in God?

And yet, many of us simply keep on wishing that things will get back on track without effort on our part. This wishful thinking and lack of serious action will get us nowhere - except into a worse state.

But there is plenty of light at the end of the tunnel! Here’s the Good News! The "New Apologetics by Mail", a top new initiative aimed to recover what we have lost, reclaim the souls that already belong to the Catholic Church, rekindle the Faith in the baptised and proclaim Jesus Christ among unbelievers. And this is not for the faint-hearted!

This new initiative provides necessary tools to Re-Evangelise the Baptised and empower Catholics to understand and defend the true Faith with wisdom and zeal: A New Apologetics for the people, as Pope John Paul II said.

"THE CHURCH NEEDS A NEW APOLOGETICS for the people, that they may understand what the Church teaches. Especially so in a world where people are continuously subjected to the cultural and ideological pressure of the media and the aggressively anti-Catholic attitude of many sects."

Pope John Paul II

The lessons in the ‘New Apologetics by Mail’ Course are taken from the celebrated ‘Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine’, authored by the great Archbishop Michael Sheehan.

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Fr Peter Joseph, holds the book, with Archbishop Pell and the Hon John Johnson MLC, President of the New South Wales Legislative Council. The book was launched at the historic Jubilee Room of the New South Wales Parliament House.

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‘In this time of rapid social change and new scientific discoveries, questions are being asked about the Catholic Faith that many may not feel confident to answer.
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‘This information will also clear up misunderstanding about the Faith and draw us closer to God.' -
His Grace Archbishop Barry Hickey

Raymond de Souza and Archbishop Barry Hickey at the Cathedral doors, after His Grace formally presented to Raymond the International Pro-Life Award of ‘Initiatives for Life’.

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Young Catholics consistently drift away from the Church in their thousands.

Is there a solution for this crisis? Of course there is!