TOTALLY CATHOLIC YOUTH MINISTER
You are watching them, holding your breath, but mostly you just hope that Johnny and Lisa will keep going to Church. They are up front strumming the guitar for Jesus. They have a mission to teach young and old wonderful new things. They promote hip and exciting music. They hold special collections for a new drum set or state of the art amplifier. They pass around a cup before mass to collect the gum. The cup goes around and kids spit in it. Nice. They are charismatic, cool and irreverent. They have access to your children's impressionable minds. Who are they? They are the youth ministers your priests may have hired for your parishes. He may have been told to do this or he may have decided on this by himself. But once the youth pastor is in for a short run, (because they never last) your kids will never be the same.
Oh they talk about the Holy Mother, the Rosary and promote Eucharistic Adoration. But they also promote an evangelical, charismatic style worship, dancing, waving hands, jumping, stomping, shouting, screaming, swaying, and various kinds of body movements that are out of place in the Catholic church. They aren't helping you. They make your families divided. They are not acting like someone who represents the Church. That is because they aren't. They are cheerleaders for youth culture. They make fashion and trendiness more important than unity of the body. They are dividing and belittling, not unifying and encouraging. They are immature in their faith and their agenda is not spiritual; it's personal. You need them in your parish like ten lashes with a wet noodle. As for being totally anything, Catholic youth ministers are totally Protestant.

SLUMBER PARTY? NO, CATHOLIC YOUTH GROUP.

HOTEL LOBBY OR CHURCH?
WORLD YOUTH DAY 2006
DUDE! LET’S FREAK OUT FOR JESUS!

This couple and Sr. Johanne Vertommen and missionary priest Fr. John did just that - at the World Youth Day in Cologne in 2005. (Flemish daily Het Laatste Nieuws)
Ever wonder what infinite wisdom made THIS possible?

GAY CONTRIBUTION TO 2006 WORLD YOUTH DAY via KJGAY
What is KJGAY: here, and here
Do you have any idea what your kids are up to with those thirty something adults at World Youth Day? Then again you would be surprised what goes on at campus. They are probably into "Buddy Christ".

