Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.

In my work, I'm blessed to meet so many amazing young people, whether they're college students

or young professionals in their careers or high school students, and I love hearing about

their faith, I love hearing about their questions and the challenges that they're facing and

the culture today. And there's one common story I hear over and over again. They'll say things

like this, hey, I work in the public sphere or I go to a secular university, I go to public school

and things are very open where I work or where I study and there's diverse beliefs, diverse

lifestyles and people just live very differently from our life as Catholics. And I remember talking

to one young man who said this, he said, you know, my friends at my school, they asked me,

why does the Catholic church hate us? So these are people that live different kinds of lifestyles

and they're feeling that the Catholic church hates them. And this young man told me, he said,

you know, well, I tell them, we don't hate you and, you know, we can be friends and we can get

along and you're cool, you know, you do you and I'll do me and it's all good. Now, there's a lot

that this young man did that was very good. It's important that we tell people that have different

beliefs that have different lifestyles that we as Catholics don't hate them. The Catholic church

doesn't hate anyone. We love everyone. We can get along with people we disagree with. We can

be friends with people that we disagree with. In fact, that's one of the great principles of

being Catholic is that we could see the truth, the goodness that's found in other religions,

other points of view, other lifestyles. It doesn't mean that we think the whole thing is true and

the whole thing is good, but we can appreciate and the goodness and truth that's found in other

religions, other perspectives, other philosophies, other lifestyles and those can be common points

for conversation, for dialogue. That's very Catholic. So I like what this young man was doing

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