NCYC

During NCYC’s new “Deep Dive” series of sessions, presenters offered practical tips about how young people — and anyone– can live their faith more intentionally through prayer and Scripture and by saying, “How can I help?”

Father Leo Patalinghug provided listeners with a different kind of recipe: “Five Steps to Become a Teenage Saint” at the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis.

“It fills me with hope, because these are young people who have personal encounters with Christ. That’s what it’s all about — a personal encounter with Christ,” said Father Jeremy Theis, pastor of the parishes in Upsala, Elmdale and St. Francis.

Teenagers from the Diocese of Springfield, Mass., put together meals Nov. 23, 2019, during the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis.

The 20,000 youth attending NCYC knelt in silence as a eucharistic procession twined through the Indiana Convention Center and again while watching a videotaped welcome from Pope Francis.

For three days, the 20,000 teenagers attending the National Catholic Youth Conference form a joyful, energetic and unifying representation of how much their Catholic faith means to them.

At NCYC in Indianapolis, the audience of young people inside Lucas Oil Stadium on the morning of Nov. 17 became more quiet and riveted as Sister Miriam James Heidland shared the hard, heartbreaking chapters of her life story.

Four buses packed with about 200 youth and adults, including five priests, from the Diocese of St. Cloud traveled to the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis where they joined 25,000 Catholic youth from around the country.