RENEW International Aids Catholic Communities In Time of Need
There may be no more momentous time in recent history for outreach the likes of RENEW International. This large Roman Catholic ministry provides a unique service–helping Catholic diocese around the nation pull themselves up the bootstraps. Where parishioners have strayed, lost faith in the Church, debated the ethics of Roman Catholic politics and otherwise become disillusioned, RENEW International has stepped in.
Already this ministerial organization has provided a backbone that’s allowing Roman Catholic communities everywhere the chance to recover and cast a wider net to current and potential parishioners.
In 1976 the seeds of RENEW International were sown in a diocese in Newark, New Jersey. There two parish priests lamented the loss of spirituality in their Catholic community and surmised that if it was happening to them, could it not be a new spiritual epidemic threatening to drag down other dioceses? Thirty years later the organization continues to successfully transform downtrodden and discouraged dioceses nationally and now internationally.
