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Young people are driving the rise of Catholicism Gen ZWhen they turn to faith as an answer to loneliness, cultural drift and seeking goals.
A Harvard study showed that between 2022 and 2023, Zers identified as Catholics rose by 6%, a shift that was the president of Michael Tidd’s father, Del Patton School, a Catholic school for Benedictine young men in grades 7- to 7 in Morristown, New Jersey, who said he had witnessed himself.
He shared with Fox and Friends on Thursday: “We show students what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ. We suggest we don’t impose, they come to us, and that seems to resonate with them.”
There is an ashes cross on his forehead and a man held a ashes Mass prayer on February 22, 2023 at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Over the past few years, we have also received students to church, either for the first time being baptized or received all the sacraments because of the experiences they have here…especially the meaning of being a person in society, to be a person of faith, a person of Catholic, and that’s the person we really involve in our young people, and it’s a difficult thing. The man answered. Catholic faith More broadly, convincing answers are provided for this. ”
Father Ted said he saw students answering the question every day in a faith-based way.
Del Patton’s students come from a variety of backgrounds – some from practice Catholic families, some from non-Catholic families – but all have the meaning of being a Catholic Christian in the theological classroom and serving the world in the world.
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A Harvard poll shows that between 2022 and 2023, Gen Gen Gen Sers of Zers Gen identified as Catholic. (Fox & Friends/Screengrab)
Father Tidd describes the school’s retreat experience as a “real game changer” for students and a “common worship” in Mass and Morned prayer that brings all students together.
A sense of community is the answer to disturbing discoveries Gallup pollyoung people in the United States are “one of the loneliest people in the West.”
More specifically, less than one-third of men reported feeling lonely the day before among men under 35 years of age.
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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, American Cardinal Robert Prevost appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on May 8, 2025 (Reuters/Guglielmo Mangiaipane)
Last week, Pope Leo XIV sent an encouraging message to young Americans in the faithful video address of devotees in his hometown of Chicago.
“So many people suffer from different experiences of depression or sadness – they can find that God’s love is true healing and it brings hope,” the newly elected pope explain.
Father Ted advises young people Influenced by loneliness Take initiatives and find others who share common experiences, dreams, ambitions, and work together to find answers to questions about meaning and purpose.
He added: “This is one of the benefits of getting into a Catholic school, we have that structure, if students want to take advantage, especially in the classroom, but on a sports team or extracurricular activities – when you form these tight bonds, then you can start asking these deep questions.”
