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The Myth of “Vibes” Conversions: Why Gen Z Is Actually Starving for the Hard Pills of Dogma, by Luke J. Ayers – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Myth of “Vibes” Conversions: Why Gen Z Is Actually Starving for the Hard Pills of Dogma, by Luke J. Ayers

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By Luke J. Ayers, Crisis Magazine, Dec. 30, 2025

Luke J. Ayers is upper school assistant headmaster at a classical charter school in North Texas and a student in the classical education graduate program at the University of Dallas.

 

Most Gen Z converts weren’t compelled to conversion by liturgical lace and incense, they were escaping the desert of safe spaces that said they were okay, when it was clear they definitely were not.

Around 2015, at the age of 18 and having been Catholic for almost a full year, I was sitting in the pew of my large, suburban parish, reflecting on the readings and waiting for the homily. The presiding priest was one I always enjoyed hearing preach. Instead, the pastor (who was not the celebrant) walked in from the back of the church in a hard hat. In place of the homily, and after putting the hard hat down on the altar, he read The Little Engine That Could and gave an update on the state of the parish’s capital campaign to raise money for a new parish hall. He exhorted us to continue giving and push the engine of the parish up the mountain of the capital campaign goal. Father left, and Mass continued. ….

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