WATCH: New ministry helps Catholic students keep faith while in college

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These engaging evenings gear students up for living virtuous Catholic lives on college campus


August 4, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The college campus has become a battleground for souls. Battles for the souls of the young are waged in the classroom, in the dorm room, on sports teams, and in the frat house. The sobering reality we're left with is that nearly 80 percent of Catholic college-aged young people (students between the ages of 18-24) leave the Church by young adulthood.

After working day in and day out in the apostolate of college-aged students for the past several years now, I can attest to the fact that the wave of secularism, temptation, and competing ideologies is indeed a powerful wave. It is vying for the soul of the Catholic and Christian students on every campus from the moment they arrive there.

These students may have grown up in solid Catholic families that went to Mass on Sundays and prayed together. They may have even been homeschooled or were extremely active in their church youth group. But when they arrive on campus, they are not immune from the sheer pressure to "fit in," to "not be too religious," to "not be the lame one who doesn't drink on weekends."

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WATCH: New ministry helps Catholic students keep faith while in college
 

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They need this now more than ever, I can only imagine the hostility that state and public schools now have towards any visible Catholicism on and around their campuses. Frankly it's worse than a battlefield out there for Catholics now.
 
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They need this now more than ever, I can only imagine the hostility that state and public schools now have towards any visible Catholicism on and around their campuses. Frankly it's worse than a battlefield out there for Catholics now.

Even some Catholic Universities are hostile. Being Catholic in name only.
 
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