Youth Speak News
Why do we struggle with patience? Why is waiting so hard? It's because our pace of life has quickened. It's difficult to have patience in a society where cell phones, the Internet and bank machines eliminate much waiting in our lives.
Young women sail aboard the Queenship
By Jenna Murphy, Youth Speak News
HALIFAX - When the doorbell rings on a rainy Saturday evening in mid-October, three enthusiastic young women, along with the smell of a homemade salmon casserole, welcomed me through the doors of the Queenship House. It’s a community for young Catholic lay women, currently home to Cristina Tersigni, 26, Jen MacDonald, 32, Ania Szymanska, 20, and Katherine McGee, 19.
Students welcomed into sacred circle
By Brittney White, Youth Speak News
Money, marriage, motherhood
By Jasmine Canaria, Youth Speak News
All my life, people have asked me what do I want to be when I grow up? With my graduation from university looming at the end of this school year, it seems that people expect me to know that fairly soon.
Homelessness seen through teens’ lens
By Andrew Selvam, Youth Speak News
Moose Jaw school’s labyrinth a path to God
By Danica Kindrachuk, Youth Speak News
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - A group of citizens from Moose Jaw is hard at work building a unique project at Vanier Collegiate, Moose Jaw’s only Catholic high school. An outdoor stopping station labyrinth, a pathway that one follows while reflecting and stopping for prayer, is halfway through its construction phase.
Prodigal Son returns
By Sophie Freynet, Youth Speak News
The balcony of the Catholic Church in Sainte-Anne, a small, semi-French-speaking town in Manitoba, is where I sat with a handful of Catholic teens on Sundays growing up. While our parents usually sat downstairs, we were removed from the congregation, not held to pay too much attention during Mass. Often, Sunday mornings spent on that balcony was the only church connection young people had.
GTA students to get Holocaust lesson
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - There aren’t many Holocaust survivors left, but Catholic schools throughout the Greater Toronto Area are making sure as many of their students as possible have the chance to meet people who lived through the genocide.
Quebec conundrum
By Catherine Farrell, Catholic Register YSN
Being a Catholic in Quebec is definitely not easy, but being a young Catholic in Quebec is even harder — or at least that’s how it seems. As a young practising Catholic, I can honestly say that I’ve struggled to maintain my faith.
Pro-life students fight for free speech
By Sara Loftson, Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Pro-life groups on university and college campuses in Canada are struggling to gain official club status.
Real world rebel
By M. Alejandra Castaneda, Catholic Register YSN
Last year I decided to leave my Catholic high school for a public school to take advanced placement courses. I figured academically a public school could open more doors for me than my little Catholic school. The only reason I attended St. Thomas Aquinas high school in North Vancouver was for the religion.