This page includes resources that youth can use to grow closer to God and the Catholic Church.
Here you will find ministries and apostolates with resources geared towards adolescents. Additionally, a list of select Catholic podcasts and books produced for young people has been provided.
Disclaimer: Links to external websites are provided solely for the user’s convenience. USCCB assumes no responsibility for these websites, their content, and/or their sponsoring organizations. References to these sites do not imply and are not to be used as official endorsement by the USCCB of the site or those associated with it. They are solely intended as a resource that might be of interest to USCCB website visitors.
If you find there are additional resources that are being used in ministry with youth with some regularity but are not listed below, please feel free to send the suggestion(s) to yyam@usccb.org.
Hope Undimmed by Paradisus Dei
Contact: 281-974-3541
info@paradisusdei.org
YOU. Life, Love, and the Theology of the Body by Brian Butler, and Jason & Crystalina Evert
Contact: Ascension Press
1-800-376-0520
support@ascensionpress.com
Several U.S. Bishops read verbatim from their letter, "Dear Young Friends," which is the preface element to Listen, Teach, Send: A National Pastoral Framework for Ministries with Youth and Young Adults, released by the USCCB in 2024.