Ecumenical Youth Groups

Young Life

"Ministering to and With Catholic Young People."

This is the only sentence that made me momentarily uneasy; the rest of the Manual was clearly written by a Catholic and is an adequate representation of Catholic teaching.

"As is the case with many youth who have a history in a church body, there is often a need for young Catholic persons to be further evangelized by caring, responsible followers of Christ."

On the one hand, that is a definition of the New Evangelization--preaching the gospel to people who have already, in theory, heard the gospel, but whose faith is immature or otherwise underdeveloped.

On the other hand, I suspect that this gives license to enthusiastic anti-Catholic teens to preach against the Church, consciously or unconsciously.

The document is OK. I doubt that the kids who do the presentations really adhere to it. It is practically impossible for evangelical Protestants not to want to persuade Catholics to "come out" of the Church. So, too, evangelical Catholics want all Protestants to "come home." :o(