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Why Gen X Catholicism is a Fighting Faith, by Peter Wolfgang – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture, Mar 31, 2025

 Peter Wolfgang is president of Family Institute of Connecticut Action, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society. His work has appeared in The Hartford Courant, the Waterbury Republican-American, Crisis Magazine, Columbia Magazine, the National Catholic Register, CatholicVote, Catholic World Report, the Stream and Ethika Politika. He lives in Waterbury, Conn., with his wife and their seven children. The views expressed on Catholic Culture are solely his own.

 

Remember the 1990s? Well sure, everyone over a certain age does. But do you remember the Catholic 1990s?

Fr. Raymond de Souza does. He was there at the time, writing from Rome for the National Catholic Register during the tail-end of that decade. Some of his columns in recent years have harkened back to that era, reminding readers on the anniversaries of key events.

You don’t have to be the same age as Fr. de Souza to appreciate those columns. But if you are, if you were reading him in your late 20s when he was writing in his late 20s, it does add something. I feel this way about all of us who were born in, or within a year or two of, 1970.

In the Catholic world this would include Fr. Roger Landry who, like me, was a college freshman in 1988 and whose experience in Rome of the day in 2005 that Benedict became Pope sounds nearly identical to the one I had that day in Hartford. And EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo, Benedictine College’s Tom Hoopes and others. ….

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