This booklet goes hand in hand with ‘Mapping the terrain – discovering the reality of young Catholics’  which presents an overview of a wide ranging research project into the lives and faith of young Catholics in England and Wales in 2009. This resources produced to help youth ministers in their parishes, schools, communities, youth projects and initiatives to apply the findings of the research in their own youth ministry context.

By combining the research findings with the rich experience of youth ministers, presented here are twelve Typologies of young Catholics. Each Typology has a varying degree of engagement with the Catholic community, belief in God, and engagement with the world. Back in 2009, these Typologies helped the Catholic youth ministry community to appreciate who they were working with, and invited them to ask if there are others they could potentially reach.