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FOX News ran a June 19 article spotlighting that Generation Z men are “leading the revival” of Catholicism among their age group.
In the article, which featured an interview with an all-boys Catholic school headmaster in New Jersey, the secular news outlet zeroed in on this religious trend and possible contributing factors.
FOX associate editor Taylor Penley wrote that Gen Zers face challenges such as loneliness and questions about the meaning of life in an acute way, and Catholicism has a unique capacity to address such issues – which is drawing an increasing number of young men to the faith. Harvard University conducted a study that found between 2022 and 2023 there was a 6% increase of Gen Zers who identified they were Catholic, according to FOX.
Father Michael Tidd, who oversees the Benedictine Delbarton School in New Jersey for grades 7-12, told FOX a number of non-Catholic students have entered the Church in recent years because of their encounter with the Faith at the school. ….