Priest says US Catholic community 'busy, in a good way' as stats show massive wave of young adults converting

There is a spike in converts to the Roman Catholic Church as young adults reportedly seek moral order after the pandemic years While people may convert to the Catholic faith at any time of year the Easter season is when plenty of choose to do so According to the National Catholic Register certain dioceses are reporting increases of and even more than this year One particular diocese in Fort Worth Texas has seen spikes in numbers where the number of converts from at Easter to at Easter an increase of Father Will Straten the pastor of St Mary s Catholic Center at Texas A M argued to the National Catholic Register that several new converts are desperate for authenticity The students who aren t Catholic are hungry and are looking for something People are just looking for something that s authentic and real They re looking for something that s grounded and seems to make sense he announced POPE FRANCIS DEAD AT VATICAN SAYSThe New York Post spoke to a priest and several new Catholics about the contemporary wave of conversions across the country particularly among young adults Father Raymond Maria La Grange of St Vincent Ferrer in Manhattan endorsed that at least three-quarters of his new converts are in their s or early s and that it was really after the pandemic that the parish in general started to grow Certain were Protestants a few were nonreligious particular were Catholics who never practiced the faith Both men and women he informed The Post A few well-off others living day to day Various are intellectuals specific are mystics Particular got to know Catholics who brought them in others came in on their own and hardly know any Catholics It is a fun time to be a priest It s busy in a good way La Grange added The priest argued that the bulk common impetus inspiring young adult converts to the Roman Catholic Church is that they realize the world cannot provide them with any moral order or reasons for living in any particular way A values of license has left them unmoored WHY ARE COMEDIANS TRENDING TOWARD CATHOLICISM ONE QUIRKY COMIC OFFERS A SURPRISING EXPLANATIONOne young woman in Manhattan Sydney Johnston advised The Post about how she initially grew up in a nondenominational Christian household After walking away from religion for a time the pandemic hitting during her college years inspired her to rethink her life When the lockdown ended she began a two-year exploration across dozens of denominations to discern which she thought to be the true faith 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 the young woman recalled And I ultimately just felt myself most of drawn to the Catholic Mass The rootedness in ancient history she stated is at the core of the Catholic Church s sense of authenticity There s just something so beautiful and transcendent about the rituals and the ancient history in the Catholic Mass that s been preserved Johnston reported The church really communicates a degree of reverence that I didn t find in the more liberal laissez-faire approach of nondenominational churches CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURETaylor New a -year-old Cincinnati native declared that once she saw a YouTuber s video about the history of Catholicism there was no going back to her former evangelical faith I decided to watch it not thinking much of it but I joke that that video ruined my life in the best way because that set me on my spiral of research New informed The Post As much as it pained her to leave her previous faith public behind she announced that there is a gravitational pull that people like her are feeling thanks to support on the internet A lot of young people are converting to the faith and I think that s just because there s a wealth of things to search on the internet and people are just on a search for truth which has them gravitating to the Catholic Church she mentioned MARTIN SCORSESE SAYS HIS NEW FOX NATION SERIES 'THE SAINTS' WAS A STORY HE DEPENDABLY REQUESTED TO TELLFormer atheists have felt the pull as well thanks to the work of Catholic influencers online A -year-old system developer in Southern California named Adrian Lawson described The Post that he was initially raised as nondenominational and then became an atheist as a teenager What inspired his conversion to Catholicism was watching a debate between a Catholic and Protestant YouTuber after which the Protestant influencer converted to Catholicism Despite the very strong negative reaction from his parents Lawson started attending the Catholic mass in and proceeded to fully convert a year ago I had anxiety depression and panic attacks but since I ve started praying the rosary regularly I haven t had any of those issues he reported