Category: Young Adults
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“A Youth Movement in the Priesthood”
“These twenty-something priests — and others like them — are the future face of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. In an increasingly secular culture, they have their work cut out for them, but they say they are undaunted.”
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Thousands Leave German Churches to Avoid Tax
Up to 200,000 Germans are believed to have filed official declarations last year renouncing their membership of the Protestant church, the highest number in almost two decades. A similar number are thought to have left the Catholic Church.
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Pastoral Difficulties with Recently Ordained Priests
Training of priests must be “a work of art, not a police action. We must form their hearts. Otherwise we are creating little monsters.” – Pope Francis
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Are the undergraduates controlled by robots?
The immediacy afforded by technology can make us impatient with the liturgical experience. Liturgical time is slow.
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M.T.D. and C.A.P.E. Catholics
Rather than scowl at the crowds who fill our pews four days a year, perhaps we need to learn what they have to teach us about the power of the Gospel.
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What do the Millennials Want?
Thus far, the experience of worship has been designed for Millennials, not by them.
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Mass Mobs: ‘Flashy’ Gimmick or Exciting Trend?
Named after flash mobs — spontaneous gatherings of crowds, often in a public place, to make an artistic or political statement — Mass mobs are spreading around the nation and taking church leaders by surprise.
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Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church
In this discouraging book, the future looks bad for just about every flavor of Catholic. It’s hard not to agree with the authors’ sense that this is a generation largely lost to what we oldsters think of as Catholic identity.
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Community as Communio?
“Community is not formed by fellowship, familiar faces, and coffee and doughnuts after Mass; community is formed when all of the congregation lifts up our hearts and voices in praise of God. That is the deep and timeless fellowship that the Mass offers to each of its participants. Through the action of the Mass, the…