Reaching Catholics: The need for a norm

Leonardo De Chirico  |  Features  |  evangelicals & catholics
Date posted:  2 Apr 2025
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Reaching Catholics: The need for a norm

Men dressed in purple robes during the Semana Santa (Holy Week) Easter procession in Guatemala. Source: iStock

In my conversations with Catholic friends, I have found it useful to reference the five “magnetic points” expounded by British theologian Daniel Strange. There are five fundamentals that all human beings are looking for and to which they are magnetically drawn. Because of their universal presence in people’s lives, they can be seen in Catholics.

According to Strange, each religion responds in various ways to these five questions. Their responses are points of attraction for people to be drawn to them. The questions are:

1. The search for totality: a way to connect to reality

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