Integrating faith and justice key to post-pandemic ministry with young Latinos

Article by Melissa Cedillo: https://www.ncronline.org/news/parish/integrating-faith-and-justice-key-post-pandemic-ministry-young-latinos

The pandemic, combined with the racial reckoning of last summer, has young Catholics — and those who minister to them — thinking about what the church can learn from Generation Z. Gen Z generally includes people born from about 1995 to 2010 — people roughly 11 to 26 years old.

Packard believes faith leaders can help young people navigate these uncertain times in a way that other professional adults can't, but they must be innovative.

"If religious leaders walk in after the pandemic thinking what we're doing is getting you to make a lifelong commitment to my God, you're going to go backward. The data is so crystal clear that's not going to work," Packard stresses. —Josh Packard