A Gospel of Life for Florida’s Young People: Spiritual, Familial and Environmental Regeneration

Florida Catholic Conference, The Florida Council of Catholic Scholarship

The Florida Catholic Conference and the Florida Council of Catholic Scholarship (Barry University, Blessed Edmund Rice School for Pastoral Study, St. John Vianney College Seminary, St. Leo College, St. Thomas University and St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary) joined together as sponsors for this project.

The project initiated a scholarly and educational process offering support for what Pope John Paul II has called “the Gospel of Life” across a range of human experiences that touch upon the spiritual, familial and environmental lives of the young people of Florida.

Through a series of seminars, inter-faculty dialogues, a state wide conference and a follow up public education campaign, the consortium began to address the problems Florida youth face from the erosion both of community and family life and the special environmental problems of Florida.

The project focuses on creating the intellectual support needed to address these problems from a Catholic perspective tying this intellectual effort into the public policy work on the environment of the Florida Catholic Conference.