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New Converts and Ancient Mystagogy, by David G Bonagura, Jr. – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

New Converts and Ancient Mystagogy, by David G Bonagura, Jr.

A Sacred Cloth and the Love That Formed a Priest, by Gigi Duncan

The Most Dangerous Media Bias Is the One That Pretends Not to Exist, by Gregory Lyakhov

Appearance on the Mountain in Galilee by Duccio di Buoninsegna, c. 1308-11 [Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena]

By David G Bonagura, Jr., The Catholic Thing, May 11, 2026

David G. Bonagura, Jr. is the author, most recently, of 100 Tough Questions for Catholics: Common Obstacles to Faith Today, and the translator of Jerome’s Tears: Letters to Friends in Mourning. An adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s Seminary and Catholic International University, he serves as the religion editor of The University Bookman, a review of books founded in 1960 by Russell Kirk. His personal website is here.

Mother Church is still celebrating the record number of converts who were received into her family at Easter. Her task now, like that of all mothers, is to nourish her children so they grow in wisdom, age, and grace before God and man. As mothers with adult children know well, this task has no expiration date: the Church dispenses the gifts of salvation to each child until his final breath.

How the Church performs this task, practically speaking, has varied over her long life. The early Church continued formal instruction of the newly baptized during Easter week. Before baptism, catechumens were taught about the faith; after it, they were led into faith via guided participation in the sacramental life. …

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