Youth

Teen speaker, youthful crowd seen as signs march resonates with the young
- Jan 25, 2020
Catalina Galinanes, this year’s student speaker at the March for Life rally on the National Mall, has been to almost as many marches as Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund.

By Kurt Jensen
Seek the light during busy Advent season, advises university chaplain
- Dec 4, 2019
Advent is the season of waiting and anticipating the coming light.

By Nancy Wiechec
In Thailand, Pope tells religions to work for peace; Catholic youth to hold firm to faith
- Nov 22, 2019
Speaking to people from 18 different religions on Friday, Pope Francis said that the complex challenges of the world today – including globalization, the rapid advances of technology and the persistence of civil conflicts resulting in migration, refugees, famine and war – makes the need for cooperation between religions all the more pressing.

By Inés San Martín

Missionary nun says God hasn’t forgotten Haiti, but humanity has
- Oct 6, 2019
“We need to do something different to help children build a future, what we’ve done so far is not enough,” said Italian Sister Marcella Catozza, a Franciscan missionary who first began working in Haiti in 2004 after the fall of dictator Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

By Inés San Martín
A papal document comes alive in young migrants’ reality at the border
- Sep 29, 2019
In an April document on youth and young adults, Pope Francis called for ministry to serve certain populations, including migrant youth. After all, in the United States alone, the population ages 15-39 is set at 104.9 million and, of those, 19.1 million, or 18 percent, are migrant youth.

By Rhina Guidos
Pope calls on Mauritius to welcome and protect migrants
- Sep 9, 2019
During the eight hours Pope Francis spent in Mauritius, a multiethnic island nation in the Indian Ocean, he urged the inhabitants of the country to remember their immigrant roots and to integrate those who are arriving as they were welcomed by their ancestors.

By Inés San Martín