Youth Speak News
A recent study by the Council of Ontario Universities paints a rosy picture of post-graduate life. Within two years of graduating, 93 per cent of graduates are employed and the average salary for someone working full-time is just under $50,000.
YSN grad investigates terrorism
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterDylan Robertson has gone from Youth Speak News reporter to homegrown terrorism investigator.
Gamers flock to God
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Tuesday nights at the Newman Centre are a time to pray and play.
Faith after flying the coop
By Clare Bekkers, Youth Speak NewsWhen I was eight, one of my friends made a statement that baffled me: she didn’t know any of her cousins. Growing up, I had this precon-ceived notion that everyone had a large family, and every Sunday my peers, like me, would go to church, walk down to their grand-parents’ house afterwards for brunch and play with their cousins long into the afternoon.
No dignity in pornography
By Meredith Gillis, Youth Speak NewsTORONTO - Pornography deadens healthy sexual relationships, says Moira McQueen.
OCY Concerts to evangelize note for note
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The Office of Catholic Youth hopes to strike the right chord with young people by entering the concert business.
Faith rescues
By James Mangaliman, Youth Speak NewsFollowing a traumatic injury and several surgeries, a friend I had once known to be free-spirited came out of the hospital a different person. He was healed physically but, mentally, he was far from fine. He called me one night as I was working on a school assignment. All notions of a quick conversation dropped when his shaky voice collapsed into a cry for help.
Smartphone app exercises the spirit
By Meredith Gillis, Youth Speak NewsBob Rice’s A 40-Day Spiritual Workout for Catholics has leapt from the printed page to smart-phones.
Women unaware of their feminine power
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body holds answers women seek from the Church, but many are unaware of its teachings.
Nuns’ radical love
By Emma Kendrick, Youth Speak NewsChicago’s Michigan Avenue was alive with spirit, laughter and heart on the last weekend of July. While the rock festival Lollapalooza drew many tourists to Chicago, for me and other young women, Nunapalooza took centre stage. The annual Come and See weekend retreat, hosted by the Daughters of St. Paul, was held on the same weekend and in the same city as the music festival, but it called young women to come together for a different purpose: to better know God.