Originally published at National Catholic Register
Thousands of young adults — not all of them Catholic — gather once a year to pursue Christ at SEEK, a young-adult Catholic conference that strengthens community while forming young adults through talks, resources and prayer opportunities.
SEEK is one of many evangelization efforts in the Catholic Church that have sprung up in recent years. The conference is known for bringing an extraordinary number of college students together, largely through the work of the missionaries of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS). This year, SEEK’s three locations totaled more than 21,000 attendees in Salt Lake City, Washington and Cologne, Germany.
But SEEK is just one long weekend, kicking off the new year. Leading voices in education spoke with the Register about what SEEK has to offer and how Catholics can continue to evangelize young adults for the rest of the year.
Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, who recently wrote a pastoral letter on education, tied the increasing number of conversions on college campuses to a need for something more than what secular society offers.
“The secular understanding of happiness and contentment and fulfillment and human flourishing isn’t doing it for people,” Bishop Conley said. “They’re
