Youth

The report examined two distinct approaches to campus ministry. Degree-educated staff tend to emphasize public service, but missionary-trained staff are more likely to focus on students’ personal relationships with God.

The fossil fuel divestment movement, which started in the 2000s, has become a mainstay of activism on college campuses.

Children can flex their learning muscles and begin to talk more deeply about their faith with a more “conversational” catechesis.

The issues that concern young Asians are different from those of their counterparts in the West, the Indian cardinal said.

“We have a picture of what the goal looks like—the dignity of women, women feeling appreciated, their gifts being used—but how do you get there?”

The church needs our young people. But we elders cannot nurture them in the faith if we repel them.