“You have so many gifts to offer the Church: your faith, your desire to serve, your spiritual hunger, your vitality, your optimism and idealism, your talents and skills. We can all learn from you, so we ask you to expand your leadership role in witnessing the Gospel. We look forward to working more closely with you to make the Church ever more effective in announcing the reign of God.”

– A Letter to College Students from the Catholic Bishops of the United States, 1995, p. 5.