How high is word of the year ‘youthquake’ on the Richter scale?

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The Oxford English Dictionary has announced ‘Youthquake’ as word of the year for 2017. The term, defined as:  “a significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people" joins ‘selfie’ and ‘post-truth’ as the linguistic sign of the times. But how much has this so-called political meteorological phenomenon affected our landscape? And what does the Church have to learn from it when engaging teenagers?

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