A 2018 study on young adults leaving the Catholic Church found people stopped identifying as Catholics at a median age of 13, long before they ceased attending a parish.

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?”