Youth Ministry

(OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given August 9, 2026, at St. Peter’s Square. Dear brothers and sisters, happy Sunday! Today’s …

Pope Leo XIV declared Boys Town founder Father Edward Flanagan venerable, recognizing his heroic virtue and moving him one step closer to sainthood.

The 2026 LA Religious Education Congress kicked off Feb. 20 with an emphasis on the healing power of mercy and self-forgiveness — and a special message from Pope Leo XIV …

Earlier this year, FOCUS announced SEEK 2027 will take place Jan. 1-5 in two cities that have hosted it before: San Antonio and Columbus, Ohio.

Pope Leo XIV reflected on the Sunday gospel reading on the calling of Simon Peter, Andrew, James and John, and our mission to proclaim the Gospel.

With a livestream connection, Pope Leo spoke for close to an hour with participants at the National Catholic Youth Conference meeting at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

The future Christians hope for and must build “is not one of walls and barbed wire, but one of mutual acceptance,” Pope Leo XIV told young adult Catholics from more …

(OSV News) — A youth ministry founded by a former rock drummer is sounding the call to grow closer to Christ by imitating the lives of the saints, and by …

(OSV News) — Before joining other pro-life advocates at the March for Life in Washington, Shannon Allen spent an evening with thousands of other teens. Inside a darkened arena, the …

WINCHESTER, Va. (OSV News) — Summer is mission trip season — which usually conjures up images of a few dozen Catholic teenagers and their chaperones practicing the corporal works of …