Before we can accompany young Catholics, we must know where we are taking them. Mary shows the way.

Several bishops in the biggest country in Latin America have stepped forward in recent weeks to demonstrate their full support of the pontiff.

Young adults are ready and willing to take on responsibility for and within the church. And many already have.

The pope said he knows that young people “are upset by sexual and economic scandals that do not meet with clear condemnation.”

The meeting of the Synod of Bishops on young people is an opportunity for an ongoing conversation between everyday lived experience and church teachings.

We have been told we are too gay or too female or too mentally ill or too divorced to serve in the church.