On the surface, the message of the Jesuit maxim “men for others” is simple, but its history and evolution only add to its layered and meaningful message.
Youth
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How ringing bells as an altar boy made the miracle of Mass feel real for me
Even today, if bells are not rung at the consecration, my memory fills in the space of silence.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
The Jesuitical podcast is going on the road
In collaboration with select partners, “Jesuitical” hosts Ashley McKinless and Zac Davis are taking their popular podcast for young adult Catholics across the country!
Posted inFaith, News
Meet the DJ priest bringing the Gospel to young people through electronic music
At a Halloween festival with some 30,000 partygoers, Father Peixoto re-mixed electronic dance beats with words from Pope Francis’ encyclical about protecting the environment. “The people are dancing with sentences from ‘Laudato Si’.’”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What monks and college students taught me about commitment
We can make major life commitments, and yet also believe in spirit of discernment to make changes in our commitments.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Dear Catholic high schools: Don’t make theology an afterthought
High school is the perfect time to engage teenagers.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The evangelization of welcome: What the church can learn from a youth center in a poor Dominican neighborhood
The children and teens of Quitasueños can also take recreational classes, like hip-hop, dance and drama; and the center organizes summer camps in the mountains. Oh, and one more thing. The young people learn about God.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Synodality played a leading role at World Youth Day. Can we keep it going in our church?
By revisiting the various moments of grace from World Youth Day, we might identify some ways we still need to walk together if we are to make effective the pope’s call for a church that is “for all.”
Posted inEditorials, Faith
Four ways the Catholic Church can actually listen more to young people
We must become a church that accompanies its people and is attuned to their hopes, doubts and lived experiences.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The professor pope: Reflecting on Pope Benedict’s love of young people and education
Nearly everything Pope Benedict ever wrote or said in public was visibly animated by a concern to encourage—and to answer—the honest existential questions that young people are brave enough to raise.