ADOLESCENTS IN THE FAMILY OR
“GET OFF MY BACK”
By John L. Boojamra
Anyone who has tried to teach religion to adolescents in the past years will probably agree that this age group is the most threatening and difficult to face. Whole segments of our youth population have turned off to religion, at least in its traditional and established forms. There have been several reasons for this, and certainly one of them is the various unhappy experiences they have had in their parishes. This rejection is one side of the contemporary religious scene. On the other side, we have what some have called a religious re-awakening among our youth: a search for meaning in un-institutionalized religion, the bizarre forms of which stagger many of us.
