Finding answers in faith: Surge of young adults entering Catholic Church - Catholic Review

Ten Reasons to Return to the Catholic Church Faith, Local | 04/3/2025 By: Our Sunday Visitor Each person has their own reasons for returning to the Church, but in all cases, God plays a central role in the decision. However, the circumstances that lead each person to take that step are different. A man is pictured in a file photo running up the stairs of St. Mary's Church before Mass in Tohatchi, New Mexico.

Finding answers in faith: Surge of young adults entering Catholic Church - Catholic Review

Shawn Pourifarsi, 20, remembers sitting in his dorm room last year at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and feeling lost. “I had a lack of worth,” Pourifarsi said. “I felt I was missing something in my life.” Father Matthew Himes, University of Maryland Baltimore County chaplain and associate director of vocations for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, celebrates noon Mass March 12 on campus for the UMBC Catholic Retrievers community. (…