Thursday, May 2, 2019

Pope, youth minister offer ideas for bringing back young Catholics

(Observer photo)
The statistics are staggering: Roughly one-third of young Catholics in the United States leave the church before their 18th birthday.
Understandably, those who work with them are very concerned by the numbers and are engaged in conversations about what can be done to stem the tide of those departing, and to bring back those who have left. These two books are a welcome contribution to that conversation.