Youth Speak News
In a world where we have so much technology and connection right at our fingertips, why do we sometimes feel so disconnected?
Virtual invitation to youth on vocations
By Angelica Vecchiato, Youth Speak NewsThe Newman Centre Catholic Mission at the University of Toronto wasn’t going to let a province-wide stay-at-home order keep it from spreading the word on a religious vocation.
Speaking Out: In giving we will receive
By Jacob Stocking, Youth Speak NewsThe typical image of poverty is often presented to us when we walk down a busy street. We see a man or woman holding a coffee cup, baseball cap or some other vessel to receive the pocket change of passers-by.
Egg decorating brings some quarantine joy
By Elizabeth Gay, Youth Speak NewsLockdowns brought upon by COVID-19 over the past 11 months have spawned a number of activities to keep peoples minds and spirits up.
Speaking Out: Mining the soul in pop music
By Mary French, Youth Speak NewsMan’s search for God lies at the very core of the soul. So it comes as no surprise that God can be found in art that springs forth from that powerful place of divine recollection: music.
Speaking Out: Abortion is not the solution
By Bernadette Timson, Youth Speak NewsI couldn’t help but cry and scream as I saw a baby decapitated, dismembered and disemboweled 10 minutes into watching the movie Unplanned.
Christianity turns 500 in the Philippines
By Paula Ducepec, Youth Speak NewsThe year 2021 marks 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines and Filipino Catholics worldwide are joining to celebrate this milestone as the faith of a people that has endured.
Speaking Out: Leaders’ example sorely lacking
By Elizabeth Gay, Youth Speak NewsCanada’s provincial and federal politicians essentially locked the country down again over Christmas because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Tightening restrictions intensified the dreariness, the darkness and coldness of a Christmas season in Canada. These limits on freedom were even instituted in communities that were faring well with flattening the pandemic’s curve.
Interfaith book study delves into C.S. Lewis
By Youth Speak NewsWhile University of Toronto students are still closed off from campus due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the institution’s interfaith book club is still coming together in an ecumenical spirit online.
Speaking Out: Create experience that screams ‘you’
By Angelica Vecchiato, Youth Speak NewsDinner table conversations at my house often turn to the fond reminiscing of the teenage life of my parents.
Ingenuity shines through for Catholic music class
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterIn a year when everything was virtually, uhhhh, virtual, Michael Paglia and his music students at All Saints Catholic Secondary School in Whity, Ont., were honoured for their contribution to this virtual reality.