Perspective: For the last three years, I've been traveling and speaking to teens and college students on the value of beauty in our pursuit of truth. I do this through original performance poetry pieces, or "spoken word poetry."
The new Springtide Research Institute report proposes a new model for youth ministers: practicing listening, transparency, integrity, care and expertise, the five dimensions of "relational authority."
Commentary: A few months into my stint as a middle school youth minister, I was used to fielding tough questions from the pre-teen crowd. Then Tess asked: "Jessie, why can only men be real priests?"
When Pope Francis visits Panama for World Youth Day in January, he will meet with young people not able to attend the festivities: some in jail and with some living with HIV.
The more than 30 young adults taking part in a global meeting of Catholic leaders to discuss how to engage today's youth have been dismissed by critics of the summit as irrelevant, or insufficiently orthodox, or worse.
Improved religious education and a stronger sense of belonging to a community were some of the topics touched upon as the Synod of Bishops moved into its final round of speeches.
Young people crave spiritual mentorship, but such guides must to be trained to accompany younger Catholics today, according to the second round of reports from the synod's English-speaking working groups.
Young people can discover Jesus and find guidance more easily in small faith-based communities and networks, several observers said at the Synod of Bishops Oct. 10.
