Young People Speak Out On Why They’re Converting To Christ ‘En Masse’

Apr 29, 2025

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An article published by the New York Post in mid-April detailed how young people, particularly Millennials, are converting to one religious denomination in particular … Catholicism.

We already know we’re in the middle of a Great American Revival. People from all walks of life are moving into a relationship with Christ, but there is one generation who keep causing concern for the Christian community: Millennials. This generation, born in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, are deeply spiritual, but many sway toward personal definitions of faith.

A report from the New York Post found that, at the same time many explore their faith, just as many young people are turning to Catholicism. (RELATED: Remembering His Holiness Pope Francis, Servant Of The Servants Of God)

What Are Millennials Saying About Catholicism?

“There’s just something so beautiful and transcendent about the rituals and the ancient history in the Catholic Mass that’s been preserved,” a woman named Sydney Johnston, 30, told the outlet. “The church really communicates a degree of reverence that I didn’t find in the more liberal, laissez-faire approach of nondenominational churches.”

“Up until that point, I was such a workaholic, but during the pandemic, I started thinking and revisiting my criticisms of Christianity,” she said. “I just started reading the Bible, and I found so much wisdom and beauty and meaning.”

“I had this question on my mind, like, do I feel God here? Does this feel like a holy place? And so I really paid attention to the aesthetic and spiritual aspects of the services,” she recalled. “And I ultimately just felt myself most drawn to the Catholic Mass.”

I was wrestling with mental illness and the meaning of life, and those are questions that I could not answer without religion,” 30-year-old Adrian Lawson told the outlet. “My mental health improved very quickly, and church showed me a different way of looking at life. I just became less self-centered, and that made me a lot happier.” (RELATED NEWS: ‘America Has Put Our Trust In God’: Trump Delivers Blunt Message To Those Trying To Rid US Of Faith)

“Eventually I was just like, you know, ‘I just need to do this. I just need to become Catholic,’” he told The Post. “I sort of worked through the objections that I had, and I didn’t really have any objections left, and I was like ‘There’s nothing really holding me back from Catholicism, so I should probably just embrace it.’”

“I think being Catholic inevitably makes one have a positive outlook on life because God is good,” said Marin Minamiya, 28. “It gives me a lot of confidence, and it gives me a lot of support through the Catholic community to become a better person and a virtuous person.”

“I’d say the most common impetus of the young is that they realize the world cannot provide them with any moral order, or reasons for living in any particular way. A culture of license has left them unmoored,” Rev. Raymond Maria La Grange of the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer on Lexington Avenue noted … but …

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