Focus is a nearly 20-year-old evangelization ministry started by a layperson who was frustrated that non-Catholic student groups seemed more successful in spreading the faith on college campuses.
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Pope Francis’ New Year priorities: Refugees, youths, trips and more Curia reform
Pope Francis, newly 81, will begin 2018 with a focus on Mary and on migrants and refugees.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis on 81st birthday: “Do not take Jesus out of Christmas!”
25,000 children and pilgrim sang the pope “Happy Birthday” today in St. Peter’s Square.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Boys Town turns 100 this month, so go watch the Spencer Tracy movie.
At first Father Flanagan rejected the idea of a film, but he signed on after he saw a script that he liked.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Hipster Catholics get a handbook
When it comes to defining what makes Catholicism hipster, a new book argues that being Catholic is hipster in itself.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Live, from D.C., it’s Jesuitical!
This week, your faithful hosts are in the hot seat.
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Live, from D.C., it’s Jesuitical!
Last weekend Jesuitical took the show on the road for our first live recording at the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice in my hometown, Arlington, Va. The Teach-In is the country’s largest Catholic social justice gathering, which brings together students from Jesuit high schools and colleges and other members of the Ignatian family for three […]
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Pope Francis: The church needs young people so that “no one should be rejected”
“The world, the church, are in need of courageous young people, who are not cowed in the face of difficulties,” the pope said.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The atheist’s case against abortion: respect for human rights
Millennials in the “pro-life generation” are not interested in a culture war, but simply want to save preborn children and their mothers from the tragedy of abortion.
Posted inFaith, Features
Can the Catholic Church keep millennials from passing it by?
Among those Catholics who choose to leave the church, 74 percent do so between the ages of 10 and 20. And 87 percent of them say that it is for good.