young adults

More than 1,300 young adults gathered forWorld Youth Day Unite, an event designed to bring together young people to celebrate their faith in years when the global World Youth Day does not take place July 22.

Historian and writer is shares concern in the new book, “The American Spirit,” about our young Americans who historically don’t know who we are or where we’re headed and do not have a sense of where we came from.

According to the Pew Research Center, nearly half of Catholics in the United States leave the church at some point in their lives. Four out of 10 of them don’t return.

Our generation faces a different cultural and global landscape and we need new approaches, language and ideas to appropriately respond.

“Mass Mobs” are popping up around the diocese and they may be coming to a parish near you.

On the first Friday of each month, with guitar in hand and songs of praise and worship on his lips, Father Aaron Kuhn leads an evening […]

In preparation for a meeting of the Synod of Bishops focused on youth, the pope wrote a letter to young people, saying the church wants “to listen to your voice, your sensitivities and your faith, even your doubts and your criticism.”

Mike Patin was the main presenter for the diocesan Senior High Youth Rally Oct. 30 at St. John’s University in Collegeville. Patin — a national speaker and retreat leader, author, youth ministry leader and adjunct faculty member at the Notre Dame Seminary Graduate School of Theology in New Orleans — recently spent several days in the St. Cloud Diocese to lead presentations for youth, young adults, parents, faith formation teachers, youth ministers and parish staff members.