Faith isn’t something learned just by studying the catechism but rather is a gift passed on to children by the example of their parents, Pope Francis said.
Although children learn the tenets of the Catholic faith in catechism class, it is first transmitted in the home “because faith always must be transmitted in dialect: the dialect of the family, the dialect of the home, in the atmosphere of the home,” he said before baptizing 27 babies.
Catholic Baltimore is a weekly radio production of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Our guests this week is Jennifer Briemann, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, and Garrett O’Day, deputy director, speaking about the opening of the Maryland General Assembly. Listen here or below.
Priests and deacons throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore provide wonderful spiritual insights through their homilies and reflections.
This week, we feature Father T. Austin Murphy Jr., pastor of Our Lady of Hope in Dundalk and St. Luke in Edgemere. Listen here or below, and click here to listen to other homilists and podcasts in the archdiocese.
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“We are called to be a light brightly visible, not to proclaim ourselves but to proclaim Christ Jesus as Lord (2 Corinthians 4:5).”
– Archbishop William E. Lori
