Excerpted from the website of Loyola magazine: “As visitors enter the Church of the Nativity in Timonium, MD, for the first time, they notice the café tables where parishioners can sip coffee after Mass. Flatscreen TVs are everywhere.

If they walk farther in, they come across the preschoolers’ room and classrooms where the older children participate in Sunday morning activities.

Through glass windows, they can also see the pews in the church itself and more TV screens.

If it’s Sunday, they rub shoulders with the people gathered in the church, members of a parish that is growing in population, volunteerism, giving, and—the pastor has reason to believe—in spirituality.” Read the whole article here