When does "just being a teenager" cross the line to a true mental health issue? What are the main causes of adolescent depression and anxiety? Why is it increasing? And how can faith help the healing process?
In interviews with The Criterion, newspaper
Nina Kruer was amazed when she looked around the room filled with more than 1,100 teens from all corners of central and southern Indiana.
When asked if she'd ever been to Mass with so many of her peers, "That's an easy no," said
The Criterion, newspaper of the Indianapolis Archdiocese, spoke with five teenagers in Lucas Oil Stadium after the closing Mass Nov. 18 -- and one earlier that day -- about their overall NCYC experience.
"It's amazing," said Sabrina Howard of the Diocese of Covington,
In a new essay, Sara Perla addresses the worrying numbers of young people leaving the Catholic Church and what parents can do about it. She writes: “Everyone knows (I think!) that parents have the primary responsibility for raising their children in the
My cradle Catholic parents instilled in me the importance of going to Mass religiously (no pun intended) but were never able to articulate why we went, answering only "because we are Catholic and that is what good Catholics do."
It wasn't until a
A nationwide teen evangelization program is gaining renewed interest after the coronavirus pandemic shut down the ministry for several months in 2020.
Minnesota-based NET Ministries has seen both in-person and newly developed online retreats grow in popularity as teenagers seek companionship and new
A Pew Research Center study released in September shows that teens' religious practice is less than that of their parents. The lessened observance cuts across all denominational lines.
And religious practice by adults, the study noted, has itself declined in recent decades.
One key
“God, please use my hands today the way you want me to use them.” North Dakota teenager Maria Loh prays that prayer every morning. It makes an offering of the 17-year-old’s usual household chores, and it gives profound meaning to the not-so-usual
Gretchen Crowe writes that one of the perks of working for a publishing company is the complimentary copy that each employee receives of every book that comes off the OSV presses. The result is that she has piles of faith-based reading materials
As Planned Parenthood prepares to open Charlotte's newest abortion facility this summer, pro-life groups are responding by organizing prayer rallies and sidewalk vigils in front of the facility, and by generating awareness of abortion among local Catholics.