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Youth Ministry

Nativity’s Wonder campaign aims to broaden vibrant youth ministry offerings

May 28, 2025
By Patricia Zapor
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Youth Ministry

Nativity’s current campaign to raise $15 million to build a 17,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art ministry center is a measure of the success of the parish’s approach to ministry to children and teens.

Archdiocese of Baltimore forming ‘lab’ for youth-led ministry

April 30, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Youth Ministry

The Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Office of Family, Youth and Young Adults is establishing the Archdiocesan Youth Missionary Protagonism Lab (AYMP Lab) to reverse the disturbing trend of disaffiliation among young people.

Radio Interview: Archdiocese of Baltimore embraces lower age for confirmation

April 21, 2025
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Worship & Sacraments, Youth Ministry

George Matysek discusses the reasons for the change to a lower confirmation age with Stacy Golden, director of the Office of Family, Youth and Young Adult Ministry within the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Institute for Evangelization, and Kenn deMoll, director of formation and innovation at St. John in Westminster – a parish that has already implemented the lower age for confirmation as part of a pilot program.

Polish talent foundation ‘best living monument’ to St. John Paul II 20 years after his death

April 6, 2025
By Katarzyna Szalajko
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Saints, World News, Youth Ministry

The Polish bishops’ conference established the “Dzielo Nowego Tysiaclecia” (“The Work of a New Millenium”) foundation in the Jubilee Year 2000. Today, 20 years after John Paul’s death on April 2, 2005, it’s called the “best living monument” of the pope, granting scholarships to talented youth, who are everything from musicians to doctors, and inventors to sportsmen.

Building beds, building faith: Youths participate in day of service and mercy

March 26, 2025
By Katie V. Jones
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Youth Ministry

Groups from Hagerstown and Frederick were participating in Just Mercy, a daylong retreat for middle schoolers held in conjunction with the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s “Rise Up, Have Mercy” middle school day in Randallstown.

St. Peter’s Basilica becomes a ‘fixable,’ explorable Minecraft world

March 21, 2025
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry

Students around the world now have a chance to be an explorer-restorer of the 519-year-old basilica thanks to a new online educational opportunity created by Minecraft Education, Microsoft’s game-based learning platform, and with the help of St. Peter’s Basilica and Vatican City State.

Christ the King triumphs over evil with the power of love, pope says

November 25, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry

While world events can seem chaotic, violent and out of control, Christians can be certain that “everything is ultimately subject to the judgment of Christ, the just and merciful king,” Pope Francis said at Mass.

NCYC is part concert, liturgy, classroom, silly fun, but God is at center of it all

November 21, 2024
By Mike Cisneros
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News, Youth Ministry

With the final blessing of the final Mass completed, thousands of young people took one last chance to rush the stage and rock out to a few songs to conclude the 2024 National Catholic Youth Conference in Long Beach.

Pope urges young people to be engaged in life, civic society

November 19, 2024
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry

Pope Francis urged young people to embrace hope and play an active role in creating a brighter future while countering the pessimism so many of their peers seem to experience.

Radio Interview: New books invite children to explore faith in deeper ways

November 18, 2024
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Youth Ministry

Catholic Review Managing Editor George P. Matysek Jr. talks with two Daughters of St. Paul about their new books geared to children.

Pope: Make sure confirmation is not last time parish sees young people

October 30, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments, Youth Ministry

The Catholic Church must put more effort into ensuring that the sacrament of confirmation is not the “sacrament of goodbye” for young people, who receive it and then do not come to church again until they want to get married, Pope Francis said.

From coast to coast, Catholic kids support missions in prayer, donations

October 25, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Missions, News, World News, Youth Ministry

In the weeks surrounding World Mission Sunday, observed Oct. 20 this year, Catholic kids from coast to coast have been supporting missions through prayers and donations.

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