Tag: Youth

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.

By Phil Davignon By now it is well known that the Catholic Church in many places—and organised religion more generally—must contend with the sudden growth...

Lebanon is in the grip of a crisis with no end in sight and needs all the help that Australians can offer, representatives from...