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Students hold placards as they demonstrate to demand global action on climate change as part of the "Fridays for Future" movement in São Paulo March 15, 2019. The banner reads: "Hey Ricardo Salles, climate change is not fake news." The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences hosted a workshop Sept. 13-14 on the "post-truth" era in communications. (CNS photo/Amanda Perobelli, Reuters)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis to young people: “You have been entrusted with an exciting but also challenging task: to stand tall while everything around us seems to be collapsing; to be sentinels prepared to see the light...to be builders amid the many ruins of today’s world; to be capable of dreaming.”
Members of the Archdiocese of Washington Youth Leadership Team pray during Mass for Life at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington on Jan. 29. (CNS photo/Andrew Biraj, Catholic Standard)
FaithNews
Robert David Sullivan
Nearly three-quarters of young U.S. Catholics say they can be a good Catholic without going to Mass every Sunday, according to a new CARA survey.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Lucy Kidwell
The real promise of “digital discipleship” should not prevent Christians from engaging in honest conversations about the harms of technology, especially to children.
Latino Catholics attend Mass at the Labor Day Encuentro gathering at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, N.Y., on Sept. 3, 2018. (CNS photo/ Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic)
FaithShort Take
Vivian Cabrera
An upcoming CARA survey reveals that Spanish-language Catholic groups are perceived as warmer and more familial. Meanwhile, English-language faith groups can be too goal-oriented and individualistic.
Rocco Buttliere, a LEGO architect from Chicago, kneels proudly next to the Vatican City State replica he created.
Politics & SocietyNews
Peter Finney Jr. - Catholic News Service
Rocco Buttliere cobbled together 67,000 tiny, plastic Lego pieces to create an improbably realistic 3D replica of Vatican City State.
Students receive Communion from Father Matthew Lowry during daily Mass at Holy Trinity Newman Center on the campus of Northern Arizona State University in Flagstaff on Nov. 25, 2019. (CNS file photo/Nancy Wiechec) 
FaithShort Take
Michael St. Pierre
Most college students attending Mass on campus won’t know the title of the document, much less the number of bishops who voted for or against it. What they will experience is a community centered around the Eucharist, and that will be what matters most.