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“My new book, "Everyone Leads: How to Revitalize the Catholic Church," is just published. I will look forward to questions from Goodreads members during the next couple of weeks. ” Chris Lowney

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How can the Church make itself relevant to the daily life struggles of young people? In particular for young families in poor areas, urban communities, and college students. "For the hungry, God may present as real bread". For example, most people cannot afford Catholic high school tuitions.

Chris Lowney That's a wonderful (but difficult!) question. I take the question up in Everyone Leads (I don't mean that as a cheap sales plug for my new book!). Here's the first issue, as far as I'm concerned: young people really aren't even on the radar of the Church, in too many cases. If you look at parish offerings, it would be very rare to find programs targeted at college aged or young adult folks. To me, that is madness! All research shows that this is the age bracket when people are most likely to leave the Church....So, the first step is real focus.....The second step--what kinds of programs would be effective? That's tougher, because this is a cohort that is becoming pretty skeptical of institutional religion in general. But at least for starters: to be honest about that would help, in other words, to convene young adult groups and frankly admit that we (as church) don't quite know how to engage you well: I bet that young folks themselves would come up with a lot of the best answers...

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