College student Maria Dominguez juggled a lot during her junior year as a political science major at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. In...
Young adults
It was finally confirmation day for our teens. As I approached the first teenager, I could see on his nametag the saint’s name he had chosen for his own...
Old is good. If you’ve ever had a tattered shirt you can’t throw out because of all the good times and happy memories rubbed into it, you’re a fan of the old...
The Springtide Research Institute has spent the past few years studying the religious inclinations and spiritual yearnings of what sociologists call Generation...
At first, Molly Burhans thought she’d be a ballet dancer. It had been her dream through middle school, her focus in high school, and her major in college—until...
“In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men...
One year ago, at the start of Lent 2021, I put my foot down. There would be no fasting, no penance, and no “giving up” this year, I decided. Like many other...
Not long ago, a well-meaning Catholic leader deeply embedded in social justice initiatives told me that young people would be less hopeless about the climate...
Got a burning question? Click here to Ask an Apostle. Q: I want to send my teenager to a Catholic high school, but she doesn’t want to go because all...
In 2010 a series of deaths by suicide began in the interior Alaskan villages surrounding Tanana, a community of approximately 200 people, most of whom are...