Youth Speak News

Tristan Bronca

Mass entertainment

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It’s 10 a.m. on a wintry Sunday and you’re sitting in a solid wood pew. The priest has stepped down from the pulpit to stand between a Nativity scene and an Advent wreath with half-melted candles counting down the weeks before Christmas. He’s speaking warmly as he delivers a heartfelt homily.

You can receive a little bit of The Catechism of the Catholic Church on your smartphone or mobile device every day.

The e-Catechism of the Catholic Church

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When Lindsay Rigby hears her phone beep in the wee hours of the morning, she knows it isn’t a work e-mail or a friend messaging her about going out for lunch. The little beep indicates that the rich tradition of the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church is being delivered to her iPhone.

Kevin Ryan (right), president of Covenant House, speaks with Covenant House residents in this undated photo.

Hope for homeless youth

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Family abuse, prostitution, teen parenthood, rejection because of sexual orientation and aging out of foster care without family — these are just a few reasons why 1.6 million young people are homeless in North America.

Lianne Milan Bernardo

‘Tis the season to be patient

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Last week I went out to do a bit of shopping and, to my dismay, found myself at a store early in the morning surrounded by too many people. I had difficulty manoeuvring my shopping cart around shoppers, strollers and the odd employee re-arranging displays. Occasionally, I would overhear a grumble of frustration from another shopper. The experience was so overwhelming that I returned home with a headache.

MP Stephen Woodworth spoke to students on Dec. 3 at the University of Ottawa about the failed Motion-312 that would have struck a committee to assess the law that currently states a baby is a human being only once it has left its mother’s body.

Law defining a ‘human being’ is unjust, MP Woodworth tells Ottawa students

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OTTAWA - Motion-312 may have been shot down in the House of Commons, but Stephen Woodworth hasn’t given up.

Jean Ko Din

The Bible cure for a crush

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Crushes are all consuming when you’re a teenager. It’s all you can think about; it’s all you can talk about.

Participants gather at Catholic Christian Outreach’s 2011 Rise Up Conference in Vancouver.

Youth ‘Rise Up’ to party in two cities

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Catholic Christian Outreach will open up its annual Rise Up conference to more people this year by hosting events in two locations.

Working on the school’s loom, George Jenkins weaves plastic loops made from old milk bags to form a bed mat.

Milk bags turned into beds

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TORONTO - Students at St. Marcellus Catholic School in Toronto’s west end are turning old four-litre milk bags into beds.

Zack Candy

Resolutions for the new Church year

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This year for Advent I decided to do something I’ve never tried before: New Year’s resolutions for a new Church year (a Year of Faith, in fact).

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Campus pro-life group triumphs at Kwantlen University

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In the face of an impending lawsuit, the student union at Langley, B.C.'s Kwantlen Polytechnic University has relented and will confer club status on a campus pro-life group.

The Love is Moving team present the show’s curriculum to about 745 students at Loyola High School in Montreal where filming first took place.

Reality show redefines ‘love’

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Love is, quite literally, moving to reality TV next April. A new show, Love is Moving, born out of a Toronto initiative known as the Love Movement is hoping to bring viewers to a fuller understanding of this familiar, fuzzy feeling.

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