American Catholics, the GenXers and the Millennials. Organized religion is old.
Spirituality is new.
And don't trample on people of other religious traditions if you want to maintain the conversation with people under 40. NCR decided to take a look at the current Catholic high school generation. Readers will see the extent to which catechists are attempting to meet today's teens where they are. In the accompanying story beginning on page 34, five Jesuit prep schools tackle the issue of continuing their Ignatian mission, knowing the day will come when there'll be no Jesuits on the staff or faculty. Millennial youth, in a nutshell, look and sound more like 1950s Catholics than anything since the '50s.