ariety of learning approaches, including music and media, keeps interest alive among adolescents and responds to their different learning styles
- Involves group participation in an environment that is characterized by warmth, trust, acceptance, and care, so that young people can hear and respond to God's call (fostering the freedom to search and question, to express one's own point of view, and to respond in faith to that call)
- Provides for real-life application of learning by helping adolescents to apply their learning to living more faithfully as Catholic adolescents—considering the next steps that they will take and the obstacles that they will face
- Promotes family faith development through parish and school programs by providing parent education programs and resources, incorporating a family perspective in catechetical programming, and providing parent-adolescent and intergenerational catechetical programming
- Promotes Christian attitudes toward human sexuality
- Recognizes and celebrates multicultural diversity within the Church's unity by including stories, songs, dances, feasts, values, rituals, saints, and heroes from the rich heritage of various cultures
- Incorporates a variety of program approaches, including parish and school programs; small-group programs; home-based programs, activities, and resources; one-on-one and mentoring programs; and independent or self-directed programs or activities Explicitly invites young people to explore the possibility of a personal call to ministry and the beauty of the total gift of self for the sake of the kingdom638 based on a prayerful reflection within the celebration of sacraments (e.g., Holy Eucharist, Penance and Reconciliation