Young Voices

Young Voices columnists are Catholics in their 20s and 30s who share their views of the church and the world.

Looking forward into the mystery

May 23, 2019

Young Voices: I hear a sentiment that the church (and forms of religious life) that they once knew are in a long winter, at rest. Scenes of life and familiar landscapes will sprout soon, they seem to say. If only they hold on to hope, then what they once knew will come back, with greater flourishing.

Praying through Easter with Vanier, Evans and Gates

by Jocelyn A. Sideco

May 16, 2019

The lives of Jean Vanier, Rachel Held Evans and Melinda Gates are helping me love others and inviting me into a thoughtfulness that moves into action.

How I learned to stop worrying and love the word 'evangelization'

by Mike Jordan Laskey

May 9, 2019

Young Voices: I have learned to embrace what I think evangelization means, even if I still get the heebie-jeebies a little when I say it. Here are three points that have helped bring me around.

Planting seeds with rosary beads

by Brian Harper

May 2, 2019

Young Voices: I'm usually not good at Lent. Yet this year I fulfilled my goal: praying the rosary almost daily. But by Holy Week's end, I owed this more to determination not to fall short than to any notion that the rosary was enriching my life.

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Looking forward into the mystery

Praying through Easter with Vanier, Evans and Gates

How I learned to stop worrying and love the word 'evangelization'

Planting seeds with rosary beads

Discovering our own resurrection story

Not too tidy: joy and holiness

'The church that raised me rejected me'

White supremacy and me and you

California officials lead with the 'faith that does justice'

What to do when nostalgia attacks

The unappreciated spiritual legacy of Gerald Ford

A season of renewal, recovery, discovery

The screens and me: a crisis in parenting

The sacred tension of solitude

The courage of youth might motivate us

Don't let that 'Big Lebowski' Super Bowl commercial delight you

Evangelizing by example

Messy table, messy heart

In the stars: an epiphany story

Let the church die, so that the church might live

O Come Emmanuel: Free us prisoners

Don't fall for it: Call out corruption no matter whose

Nine signs of the 'War on Christmas,' and how to avoid them

Editing genes down to the safe and productive middle

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