youth

Bishops call on EU to ensure disadvantaged, migrant, disabled youths' involvement in education, exchange programs

Updated: EU Bishops call on Brussels for more inclusive youth programs, cancel 40th anniversary celebrations over coronavirus

In message for World Youth Day, Pope warns young against 'digital narcissism'

Sympathy, not selfies: In message for World Youth Day, Pope warns young against “digital narcissism”

Salvini, with a rosary at a rally

Analysis: Salvini and the Italian Church: who’s using who?

1 in 2 young Swedish Christians humiliated or hurt for their faith - report

1 in 2 young Swedish Christians “humiliated or hurt” for their faith: Churches’ report

A man kisses the Pope during the General Audience Wednesday 19 February

Pope insists on World Social Justice Day on “rights” and “immense dignity” of poor and abandoned

'True vocations crisis' in Poland but country still home to one-in-four new priests in Europe

“True vocations crisis” in Poland but country still home to one-in-four new priests in Europe

Danish Catholic Church tries desperate measure to win back disaffected youth

Danish Catholic Church tries desperate measure to win back disaffected youth

New 'Red Pope' Cardinal Tagle makes Rome debut

New ‘Red Pope’ makes Rome debut presenting children’s book in Vatican hospital: “Where there are no children, there is no future”

Pope's 'global compact on education' - Francis calls for 'covenant' to form 'more fraternal world'

Pope’s “global compact on education”: Francis calls for “covenant” to form “more fraternal world”

The presidents of the German Church's 'synodal path'

“Synodal path” begins in Germany: youth, laity dream of Church “democratisation”

Irish elections 2020

Irish elections: Bishops demand answers on homelessness, environment, intolerance, youth

Investigators at the scene in Drumcondra where the missing teenager's body was found

“Disgusting and beyond belief”: Armagh auxiliary deplores murder of teen, pleads for end to gang “cycle of violence”

Pope Francis January 12 during the Angelus prayer

Francis: “The good disciple is the humble one, the meek one, the one who does good without making a show”

Pope Francis January 9 in his 'State of the World' address

Pope denounces world’s “very weak” response to climate change “a source of grave concern”

Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart Gebhard Fürst (c), surrounded by fellow German bishops

German bishop says ‘synodal path’ reform process “only chance” for Church, adds women deacons “possible”

Taizé Prior Brother Alois with Catholic youth in Poland

Taizé Prior invites Catholic youth gathered in Poland to “concrete commitment to the very poor”

Sant'Egidio demonstration in Rome on the World Day of Peace

Italian Church group head warns: “We must always defend peace, because otherwise it will be trampled by the powerful”

Pope Francis before the Shroud of Turin

“Burial cloth of Jesus” to go on rare public display in Italy in December

Pope Francis embraces a man

Welcome and mercy, touchstones of the Pope’s 2019

Anti-climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg

Irish Primate defends “prophet” Greta as Polish bishops redouble attacks

Jedraszewski and Thunberg

Polish archbishop blasts Greta Thunberg as Antichrist

European Meeting of Young People in Poland, organised by Taizé

Pope exhorts youth gathered in Poland to tackle “perils that weigh on our Common Home”

Climate activist Greta Thunberg

Vatican cardinal praises Greta Thunberg’s “coherence with Church’s teaching”

The drama of poverty (stock)

Portuguese Church groups denounce plight of poor “living worse than animals”

Cardinal-elect Michael Czerny

Eight quotes to know and share from new cardinal Michael Czerny

'Fridays for Future' sign

Cardinals Marx, Hollerich thank young people for “Fridays for Future”

Mass in Warsaw, Poland

Crisis in Polish Catholicism: only 7% of youth “fully trust” the Church

Climate strike in Ireland

Irish Church stands with youth on climate strike, calls for “radical ecological conversion”

Cologne cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki

German Catholic youth blast Synod-phobic Cardinal Woelki for ‘noes’ on women priests, Church democracy

Young businessman (stock)

European Young Christian Workers lament decreasing job security, loss of rights