#12691 How Do You Reach Young People Online and Teach Faith?
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How do you reach young people online and teach faith?” This question opens a discussion on effective strategies for engaging youth in their faith journey. Additional topics include addressing concerns about pre-marital sex with college students and the challenges faced by religious educators in reaching teens. The conversation also touches on teaching methods for confirmation classes and engaging late teens exploring Catholicism.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:22 – How do you reach young people online to help them encounter Christ offline?
- 07:56 – How do I explain to my niece who is in college who only sees the problem with pre-marital sex the potential of getting pregnant even though she was raised Catholic?
- 15:21 – I’m a religious educator for teens and I feel like I don’t have enough resources to reach them. What are your thoughts?
- 29:11 – I’m a catechist. Is it unrealistic to only teach in a classroom setting for 11–17-year-olds?
- 39:53 – I’m a confirmation teacher. How do I get them to talk?
- 47:48 – I’m a catechist and am getting a lot of late teens and early 20’s who want to explore Catholicism but have no background in faith. Where do you recommend I begin with them?
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| 0:54.8 | people in your life that you'd like to reach. Maybe you are a young person who would like to be |
| 0:59.8 | reached, or maybe this is just a topic that you're interested in because you know none of this |
| 1:04.8 | stuff is going to hang around if we don't reach the young people with it. You're welcome to call |
| 1:08.6 | with your questions on reaching teens with the gospel, with the fullness of the gospel in the Catholic Church. 8883187-884, 3187-884. |
| 1:19.7 | Guess who we got for a guest? Connor McLaughlin is here with us. He's Catholic evangelists, |
| 1:24.1 | speaker, coach, online creator, whose work centers on what he calls practical sainthood. |
| 1:30.6 | He's been creating Catholic content since 2015 and describes his approach as helping people |
| 1:35.4 | find and follow. |
| 1:38.6 | You've got to follow it. |
| 1:39.4 | God's unique plan for their lives. |
| 1:41.4 | Connor, thanks for being here. |
| 1:42.3 | Thanks. |
| 1:42.8 | I'm excited for round too. |
| 1:44.0 | I know, I know. Second, thanks for being here. Thanks. I'm excited for round two. And yeah, I know, I know. The second of many, I hope. Although there's the second appearance curse, you know, you probably don't know about that. You don't know about that? No. Nobody mentioned the second appearance? Well, this is going to be a rough hour for you then, Connor. We probably should have mentioned that. 8883187-884. If you have questions about |
| 2:02.9 | reaching teens with the gospel, 8883187-884. All right, so look, there does seem to be, I think I'm speaking, |
| 2:15.1 | you know, within reason here when I say there seem to be some kids online. |
| 2:20.9 | Teenagers, there seems to be some of them. |
| 2:22.5 | There's a few of them. |
| 2:23.8 | Right. |
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