Tag: Youth

A new original play explores some of Christianity's biggest questions through story, humour and theatre, inviting audiences to discover that faith and reason belong together.

On a Saturday evening in Five Dock in Sydney’s inner west, the All Hallows parish youth group is working hard preparing meals and snacks for the city’s less fortunate.

Young Catholics from across Australia and New Zealand came together for the 2026 Australian Maronite Convention, Arise, held over three days at Stanwell Tops on the NSW south coast.

So if you really need one - how do you find a good spiritual director? Philippa Martyr has a tried and tested method.

Lots of Catholics will try to influence you – but not all of them are helpful, says Philippa Martyr.

“Desperation.” That’s the word a wise church elder recently used, in describing the attitude of some youth towards marriage.

The French painter Henri Matisse said creativity takes courage, and that’s certainly true of Eterio Herrera. After early retirement at IBM when he was in...

I’m continuing to explore a group of around 700 young Australian Catholics who go to Mass. They are divided into two groups – the weekly massgoers, or “weeklies”, and the less regular massgoers, or “irregulars.”

University of Notre Dame academic Stephen Bullivant and Philippa Martyr asked just over 700 younger Catholics under 40 across Australia why they attend Mass every Sunday.

In the last 30 years, we have spent a lot of time and money writing reports about lapsed Catholics and youth. We always find the same thing.

Youth aged 18-25 are suffering the lowest sense of wellbeing on record, according to the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index, but Catholic youth differ in one key respect

Pope Francis was filmed in June 2022 for a documentary titled "The Pope: Answers," released on the streaming service Disney+ April 5.