Youth Ministry

This exciting new series of booklets – designed for easy, quick reading – explores contemporary topics of concern to teens everywhere. Each topic is approached from a Catholic perspective in a style that is to-the-point and never preachy.

Attractive, concise, and conversational, they are inexpensive enough to order one for every teen in your diocese, parish, school or group. They are eight pages each, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. A set of 10 is $7.95. Call 1-800-543-4383 for reduced pricing when you order any assortment of six or more 10-packs.

What Catholic Teens Should Know About What Muslims Believe

If we formed our opinions on Islam based solely on our current
news coverage, our understanding would be one-sided and incomplete. In this book, teens learn the basics of the Islamic
faith and what similarities and differences there are to Christianity.

What Catholic Teens Should Know About Homosexuality

This booklet explores not only how homosexuality affects the everyday life of teenagers but also how Catholics are called to respond to gays and lesbians. Teens learn what the Church teaches about homosexuality and how homosexuals can remain faithful Catholics.

What Catholic Teens Should Know When Dating Turns Violent

Dating should be a fun way for teens to get to know each other. When it moves beyond fun to violence or abuse, however, it is
time to take action. Here, teens learn the signs of abusive be-
havior and their rights and responsibilities as dating individuals.

What Catholic Teens Should Know About Retaliation

It’s a human instinct to return harm for harm, to strike back, but has history proven that conflicts get resolved through retaliation? If we truly want world peace, we can have it. Here’s a look at how loving your enemies really is the answer—and how hard it is to accomplish.

What Catholic Teens Should Know If Pregnant and Panicked

There is hardly a more stressful time for a young, unmarried girl
than when she discovers she is pregnant. How do I tell my family? Do I keep the baby? What about the baby’s father? Clear, practical, and compassionate answers are given to these and many more questions facing a pregnant teen.

What Catholic Teens Should Know About Suicide

Suicide is the fifth leading cause of death among youths between the ages of five and fourteen and the third leading cause for those fifteen to twenty-four. It’s a serious problem—everybody loses, nobody wins. Here, teens learn the warning signs, how to get help for themselves or others, and how to stay emotionally healthy.

What Catholic Teens Should Know
When Parents Divorce

Half of all Catholic teens today have experienced divorce in their families. Why did this happen? What should I tell my friends? Is there anything I can do to fix it? This booklet provides answers to teens’ questions about divorce and a clear understanding of Church teaching.

What Catholic Teens Should Know About
How Far to Go
Why do parents and teachers and preachers and counselors all give teens warnings about going too far? How far is too far? A father and his teenager daughter discuss the answer to this age-old question.

What Catholic Teens Should Know About
Capital Punishment
Few civilized societies still permit capital punishment. One of them is the U.S., where, in 38 states, a murderer may be sentenced to die. In this booklet, the Church’s teaching on the death penalty is made clear and easy to understand.

What Catholic Teens Should Know
When Scandal Hits the Church
Throughout the Church’s history, people have struggled through difficult scandals. Yet we survive. Keeping the faith is particularly hard when the Church itself is the cause of our pain. Why is it important to stay in the Church, helping it heal and making it better?

What Catholic Teens Should Know About
Ecstasy
This small "smartie" candy-looking drug, stamped with emblems, corporate logos, cartoon characters, and animals, is an illegal drug manufactured at the rate of approximately two billion tablets a year. Once it was known only to underground users, but it is now sold on elementary playgrounds and is a favorite at teen parties and raves. Kids need to know what it is, how the body reacts to it, and why they should avoid it. Here's the scoop.

What Catholic Teens Should Know About
Going to War
Some governments oppress their people, hide terrorists, or practice ethnic cleansing. How should the world respond to these injustices? When, if ever, are a nation and its people justified in going to war?