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European American family

Explore the challenges and opportunities in reawakening Catholic identity in European American families, addressing issues such as passing on the faith, secularized culture, polarization, and more. Discover strategies for building a common Catholic identity, engaging youth, intercultural communication, and fostering a sense of communal belonging.

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European American family

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  1. European American family

  2. Challenges • Reawakening Catholic Identity in Tradition without resorting to nostalgia • Catholic Social Teaching • Communal Sense • Being a Eucharistic People

  3. Challenges • Passing on our Faith to our Youth • Youth don’t feel at home • They need to feel their own Catholic Identity • We need faith formation and education for ourselves and for our youth

  4. Challenges • Secularized, individualistic culture / modernity • Breakdown of the family structure • Loss of Catholic Communal Culture

  5. Challenges • Polarization • Damages the credibility of the Church • Dialogue difficult

  6. Challenges • An Intercultural not a Multicultural Approach • Comfort in interaction across cultural lines

  7. Opportunities • Building a common Catholic idenity • Through locating God in shared faith • Shared struggles • Shared histories • ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT IN HUMBLING TIMES OF SCANDAL

  8. Opportunities • Young people • As hope and enthusiasm • A gift to us

  9. Opportunities • Education: • Intercultural communication skills • Education for parish leaders and for families

  10. Opportunities • Experiencing the Church Universal

  11. European American Family • Replicate model of intercultural dialogue • Convocation manual needs to be broken down to be useful on the parish/diocesan/regional/national/international levels • Gather Young Adults/Youth in a conference replicating this model • Create witnessing opportunities using this conference as a model • Modeling intercultural diversity in other worship and conferences • Allow for the different cultural families to separate out and have their own tracks to be most effective in planning • Resource beginning on the Parish Level for facilitating the collection of family faith stories (particularly with youth) • Continue this process to the diocesan, national, and international level to develop a Family History Faith Story • Catholic Genealogy/Faith Story network online (Facebook?) • Hospitality encounter/welcoming to multicultural families • Beyond coffee & donuts • Continuing mutual giving through sharing of stories

  12. European American Family • Align resources with our priorities • Using what already exists rather than creating something new • Form strategic partnerships with National Organizations and Universities to advance the mission of the USCCB • Identifying skill set and training of people working in the vineyard • Who is called to Leadership? • Catechesis & Evangelization • Formation programs for both youth and adults • People catechizing the youth are not catechized themselves • Raise up devotions (i.e. Marian) that have a cross cultural appeal to be celebrated in family settings • Theological Reflection to the Conference • Academic response • Already in process

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