Youth

We look at the Synod’s final document and talk about what still needs to be done to have young people lead in the Catholic Church.

"As long as there are new generations able to say, 'Here I am' to God, the world will have a future."

As thousands of pilgrims streamed through the neighborhood of Las Acacias en route to the World Day Youth vigil, those from Nicaragua and Venezuela received special cheers and applause as they carried the flags of their respective countries.

Lisbon, Portugal, will open its doors to the world's young people in 2022 for the next World Youth Day.

He told them, “Dear young people, you are not the future but the now of God and he invites you and calls you in your communities and cities to go out and find your grandparents and elders; to stand up and with them to speak out and realize the dream that the Lord has dreamed for you.” 

"Are you willing to be an 'influencer' like Mary, who dared to say, 'Let it be done'?" he asked. "Only love makes us more human and fulfilled; everything else is a pleasant but useless placebo."