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.”
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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.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Preaching to the hearts of college students
Rev. Brian Ching, C.S.C., shares with host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., how knowledge of the Scripture, the life of faith and knowledge of the people in the pews is central to a good harmony.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis at World Youth Day: ‘Live each day with hearts free of fear.’
In his homily for the closing Mass at World Youth Day, Pope Francis preached on The Transfiguration and its lessons for young people. He also announced that there will be a Jubilee for young people in Rome in 2025 and that the next World Youth Day will be held in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, in 2027.
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Pope Francis at World Youth Day: There is space in the church for ‘everyone, everyone, everyone!’
Pope Francis told some 500,000 singing, shouting and swaying young people that God has called each person to him by name, not their social media handle.
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As sex abuse crisis hits Portugal, Pope Francis says listen to the ‘anguished cry of the victims’
Pope Francis addressed Portuguese bishops, priests, religious and pastoral workers after praying vespers at the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon Aug. 2, the first day of his trip to Portugal.
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Deep Dive: How World Youth Day became an epic event for young Catholics
World Youth Day is about believing that the experience will make a difference in the lives of young people and on their relationship with God.
Posted inArts & Culture, News Analysis
We live in an age of bad celebrity apologies. The bishops can learn from their mistakes.
We as audiences might not have the power to shape the actions of those we admire. But we do have the capacity to demand more from their attempts to address their shortcomings publicly.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Riots in French cities reveal deep social fractures. Here’s how the church is trying to help.
Merzouk’s killing blew the lid off years of simmering resentment because of the police treatment of black and Arab youth, the ghettoization of immigrants and their descendants and the general hopelessness among black and Arab youth who feel like second-class citizens in France.