Youth

In this booklet we will hear the voices of six people who generously offer us their testimony of faith, a faith that has grown strong during lives marked by suffering and resistance, exclusion and encounter, earnest  arguments with God and the discovery of God’s infinite love. This booklet is in some ways a continuation of Recognition of LGBTIQ+ Persons in the Church (Booklet CJ #185). It seeks to follow up on what James Martin SJ noted there: “Pastoral outreach to LGBTIQ+ Catholics is not simply a fad or a passing trend, or even something responding to cultural ‘pressures’; rather, it is a constitutive work of the Church and a mission that finds its ultimate roots in the Gospels.”
 

In November 2023, a group of families from the Poblenou neighborhood in Barcelona decided to respond to the growing unease caused by an unquestioned social consensus: that starting high school was the right time to give their sons and daughters a smartphone. The movement gained more traction than expected, and thousands of families from across the country joined in. One of the most active participants, Xavier Casanovas, explains here —in a brief and clear way— the reasons that led them to call for putting technology back in its rightful place before it's too late.