Youth Speak News

Chris Stefanick spoke to more than one thousand youth on Feb. 16 at St. Francis Xavier Church in Mississauga, Ont. This is the first year Stefanick has brought the Reboot! Live! youth conference tour to Canadian parishes

Canadian youth, parishes ‘Reboot!’ their faith

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It all started with a selfie.

While at the Steubenville Toronto youth conference last July, a few of the youth from St. Francis Xavier parish asked the host, Chris Stefanick, to take a selfie with them.

Violet is the lead character in the movie Viable, which is loosely based on director and co-writer Mary Gyulay and her personal experiences living with multiple sclerosis.

Young filmmaker shares viability of living with MS

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Mary Gyulay was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a year and a half ago, at the age of 22. At the time of her crisis, she turned to God.

Sr. Ephigenia Gachiri with this year’s graduates of the Christian rite of passage. Gachiri developed a rite-of-passage ritual based on the RCIA program as an alternative to a cultural ritual rite that involves female genital mutilation.

Building a safe haven for Kenyan girls at risk

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TORONTO - Life is very different for the girls at the Abundant Life Centre in Kenya when compared to the students at Toronto’s Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School.

Aidan Oliver may only be seven, but already the boy from New Waterford, N.S. understands the importance of being an agent of peace.

Youthful exuberance a sign of hope at New Waterford parish

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NEW WATERFORD, N.S. - He has been called a ray of sunshine, a sign of hope and messenger of peace. But little Aidan Oliver says he just wants to make people happy.

Andrea Scapinello and John O’Brien will discuss how young adults can apply Ignatian practice to their social media habits

An examination of your social media conscience

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Marshall McLuhan, a communications philosopher and former professor at the University of St. Michael’s College in Toronto, once stated that “we make our tools, and then our tools make us.”

Maria Montemayor volunteered at a children’s rehab centre run by the Siervas sisters in Peru.

Encountering Santa Rosa

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I never imagined that meeting two nuns at a Chinese Catholic camp last September would lead me two months later to the home of my parish’s patron saint, Rose of Lima.

Pope St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body is the utlimate life hack for young people, said Sr. Helena Burns.

TOB is the ultimate life hack

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Clarity, joy, relief, purpose, fire, blown minds, singing hearts. According to Sr. Helena Burns these are just some of the things that participants will be guaranteed to leave with after taking her Theology of the Body course.

Reid Locklin’s new book examines different teaching approaches to help students become more civically engaged.

Teaching youth engagement

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While there is evidence that youth are less civically engaged than the general population, Reid Locklin says it’s merely that they are differently engaged.

Amidst the busy-ness of the season, remind yourself of the true meaning of Christmas

Focusing on CHRISTmas

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Now that exams are coming to an end and Christmas break is beginning, there’s more free time to rest and make the most of the season.

A new documentary retells the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe and how she led to the conversion of millions of Aztecs

Film reveals how Mary transformed a culture

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Mother Mary is the “Mother of the civilization of love,” according to a new documentary film, Guadalupe: The Miracle and the Message.

The St. Michael’s Choir School Christmas concert at Massey Hall has been a part of Toronto’s Christmas tradition for 50 years.

Choir school marks 50 years of Christmas at Massey

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TORONTO - For many Torontonians, regardless of religion, the St. Michael’s Choir School Christmas concert marks the beginning of the excitement and anticipation surrounding the Christmas season.

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