“The Church needs you. The world needs you.”
Skoch, a Catholic evangelist from Kansas City, similarly encouraged the young people to share their newly-renewed faith with the people they already know and those whom they encounter in the world.
“Do you know how many people are outside of this dome that I will never have an opportunity to reach? But you can,” she said.
Students attending the conference told EWTN that they have experienced a strengthening of their Catholic faith, and many are well aware that their faithfulness goes against the prevailing societal narratives about a largely irreligious Gen Z.
Evelyn Shirtliff, a freshman at Hillsdale College from Ann Arbor, Michigan, said she has also been gratified to see so much unity among the conference attendees amid so many reports of division in the world and in the Church.
“I’ve never been to a giant Catholic conference before. Just seeing that many people who all share your beliefs, and they come from lots of different backgrounds and just seeing everyone come together in that union, I think that’s something that’s really powerful about the Catholic Church — the unity and the beauty of that unity,” Shirtliff told CNA. “We’re all here for him and we’re giving everything to him.”
Katherine Cullen, a Benedictine College student also from Ann Arbor, said she has faith that being in Christ’s presence will produce positive effects on all the attendees, even if they don’t realize how they have been changed.
“Just by being in his presence, that is life-changing for everyone in the room,” she said.
“Everyone’s going to be changed in some way, even if they don’t know it.”
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Jonah McKeown is a staff writer and podcast producer for Catholic News Agency. He holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has worked as a writer, as a producer for public radio, and as a videographer. He is based in St. Louis.
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