There is an increase in converts to the Roman Catholic Church, since young adults seek “moral order” after the pandemic years.
While people can become the Catholic faith at any time of the year, the Easter season is when many choose to do so. According to the National Catholic Registry, “certain dioceses are informing increases or 30%, 40%, 50%and equally more than 70%” this year. A particular diocese in Fort Worth, Texas, has seen peaks in numbers, where the number of converts of “896 in Easter 2023 to 1,544 in the Easter of 2024, an increase of 72%”.
Father Will Staten, the shepherd of the Santa María Catholic Center in Texas A&M, argued to the National Catholic Registry that many new converts are desperate for authenticity.
“Students who are not Catholics are hungry and look for something. People just look for something authentic and real. They are looking for something that is punished and seems to make sense,” he said.
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The New York Post spoke with a priest and several new Catholics about the recent wave of conversions throughout the country, partly among young adults.
Father Raymond Maria La Grange de San Vicente Ferrer in Manhattan, confirmed that at least three quarters of his new converts are 20 or 30 years and that “it really was later after [the pandemic] That the parish in general began to grow. “
“Some were Protestants, some were not religious, some were Catholics who never practiced faith. Both men and women,” he told The Post. “Some accommodated, others who live day by day. Some are intellectuals, some are mystics. Some met Catholics who brought them, others entered their and almost do not know Catholics.”
“It’s a fun time to be a priest. He is busy, in good sense,” added the Grange.
The priest argued that “the most common impetus” that inspires young adults becomes the Roman Catholic Church “is that they realize that the world cannot provide them with any moral order, or reasons to live anyway. A culture of a Hasse Hasse Hasse license license.
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A young woman in Manhattan, Sydney Johnston, told The Post about how she initially grew in a non -denominational Christian home. After getting away from religion for a while, the pandemic hit. When the blockade ended, it was a two -year exploration in denominations boxes to discern that he believed it was true faith.
“I had this question in mind, like, I feel God here?” And finally I felt more attracted to the Catholic Mass. “
The roots in the “ancient history,” he said, is in the center of the sense of authenticity of the Catholic Church.
“There is something so beautiful and transcendent about the rituals and the ancient story in the Catholic Mass that is preserved,” Johnston said. “The Church really communicates a certain degree of reverence that I did not find in the most liberal approach, Laissez-Faire or the non-denominational churches.”
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Taylor New, a 27 -year -old Cincinnati native, said one saw a YouTuber’s video about the history of Catholicism, had not returned to his former evangelical faith.
“I decided to see it, without thinking much, but I joke that this video ruined my life in the best way, because it put me in the spiral of the investigation,” New to The Post told The Post.
As much as it hurt to leave behind his community of previous faith, he said that there is a gravitational impulse that people like her feel resources on the Internet.
“Many young people are becoming faith, and I think that is just because there are a lot of things to search the Internet, and people only seek the truth that they have them gravitating the Catholic Church,” he said.
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The ancient atheists have also felt attraction, thanks to the work of online Catholic influencers.
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A 30 -year -old software developer in southern California called Adrian Lawson told The Post that he was initially raised as indominational and then became atheist when he was a teenager. What inspired his conversion to Catholicism was to see a debate between a Catholic and Protestant YouTuber, after which Protestant influencer converted to Catholicism.
Despite the “very strong negative reaction” of his parents, Lawson began attending the Catholic Mass in 2022 and proceeded to become completely a year ago.
“I had anxiety, depression and panic attacks, but since I began to pray the rosary regularly, I have not had any of those problems,” he said.
