On Friday, 7 November, we held the 5th online Annual Assembly of the Youth Ministry Network (RPJ) under the motto “A network that shares.”
It was an enriching meeting in which, from the diversity of charisms, we shared the challenges of youth ministry, reviewing what was carried out in 2025 and planning for 2026.
Throughout the Assembly, participants highlighted the positive assessment—by all the institutions—of the path walked together and of the monthly meetings of the various teams, to which people from many ecclesial contexts are joining, thus making synodality concrete in this field. It was very encouraging to hear from the leaders of the new RPJ teams in Africa and Europe–USA (English-speaking), who are joining the work of the Latin American and Spanish teams (Spanish-speaking). We also underlined our convergence with the School of Pastoral with Young People (Spain), with whom we will propose new in-person initiatives in youth ministry.
In evaluating what has been done, we especially underlined the free RPJ magazines, which continue to be a light and a sign of communion for youth-ministry companions, together with the online trainings and our communication and evangelisation work on social media.
https://rpj.es/revista-pastoral-juvenil/
Looking to 2026, many proposals have been raised—which we will soon publish in our annual plan on the website—and, as institutions, we clearly intend to frame the themes of the magazines and online trainings from the current challenges our world faces, so as to work on them with youth groups: peace, spirituality of communion, artificial intelligence, leadership and accompaniment, commitment to situations of poverty, etc.
In this sense, we are sharing more international partnerships. For example, next February we will launch a course on youth ministry, digital evangelisation and artificial intelligence, organised together with the Cardinal Pironio Institute of the Argentine Episcopal Conference and the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See.
We also wish to expand our own audiovisual resources, offer printed publications to support pastoral agents in their ministry and develop a dedicated AI specialised in youth ministry, drawing on the experience and resources of all the institutions in the RPJ.
We closed the Assembly listening to the words of Pope Leo’s greeting to digital missionaries, delivered during his Jubilee, which challenge us as RPJ:
“Go and repair the nets. Build other nets: nets of relationships, nets of love, nets of free exchange. Not caring about the number of followers, but experiencing in every encounter the infinite greatness of Love. Nets that make room for the other, more than for oneself, where no ‘filter bubble’ can silence the voice of the weakest. Nets that set free, nets that save. Nets that help us rediscover the beauty of looking one another in the eye. Nets of truth. Thus, every shared story of good will be a knot in a single, immense net: the net of nets, the net of God.”
Who we are
RPJ is an ecclesial and synodal organisation committed to digital evangelisation and to accompanying youth-ministry agents.
Since our foundation in 1959 with a youth-ministry magazine, we have been responding to the needs of each generation’s pastoral processes, while keeping our core service to the Church through reflections, training, and the creation of resources and pastoral experiences with and for young people. In recent years we have been working ever more as an international network, offering online training and carrying out evangelisation on social media. Different ecclesial institutions from various countries, charisms and vocations have begun to take part in our teams and initiatives. We share this mission in Spanish and now also in English:
www.rpj.es
www.facebook.com/rpjdigital
www.instagram.com/redpastoraljuvenil/
www.youtube.com/@redpastoraljuvenil
INSTITUTIONS PARTICIPATING IN RPJ
- Piarists (Betania, Catalunya, Centroamérica, Chile, Emaús, Nazaret)
- ICCE España and ICCE Nazaret
- Universidad Cristóbal Colón (Mexico)
- Fundación Edelvives
- Oblatas Europa
- PJV Vedruna Europa
- Challenge internacional
- Maristas Ibérica
- Itaka-Escolapios
- Movimiento Calasanz
- Hermanas de la Caridad de Santa Ana (Spain)
- Esclavas del Divino Corazón (Spain)
- Acción Católica General (Spain)
- Youth Office of the Archdiocese of Madrid
- Instituto de PJ Cardenal Pironio (Argentina)
- Escuelas Católicas (Spain)
- Adsis
- Católicos en red
- La Salle (Spain and Portugal)
- Marianistas (Spain)
- Fundación Educativa Ángeles Galino
- CHRISMON España
- Fundación Educación Católica (Spain)
- Amigos del Desierto
