Young adults, contemporary society and Catholicism; young Catholics in Malta - similar origins, multiple destinations; young Catholic adults in Ireland; young adult Catholics in contemporary Poland; young adults in Italy - towards a religious and moral supermarket?; young CAtholics and contemporary American society; young adult Catholics in England; young adult Catholics at the millennium.

GEORGE ALBON is the author of Empire Life (Littoral Books), Thousands Count Out Loud (lyric & press), Brief Capital of Disturbances (Omnidawn), Step (Post- Apollo), and Momentary Songs (Krupskaya). His work has appeared in Hambone, New American Writing, O Anthology 4, Avec Sampler 1, and the anthologies The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry, Bay Poetics, and Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard. His essay “The Paradise of Meaning” was the George Oppen Memorial Lecture for 2002. He lives and works in San Francisco.