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Rise in Young Catholic Converts Points to Spiritual Longing in U.S. and Europe

As Pope Leo XIV visits France, the number of converts is growing in secular Western countries, and some in Gen Z are rediscovering the faith of their grandparents.

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In Europe and America, a striking new generation of believers is emerging. Young adults find the Catholic faith interesting again. Not despite the old traditions, but often precisely because of those traditions. This was clearly visible during Pope Leo XIV's visit to France. The Pope was...

Generation Z returns to Catholicism: number of converts grows in France, USA, Germany and Spain

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Pope Leo XIV's visit to France has drawn attention to the growing number of converts to Catholicism across Europe, even in a traditionally secular country like France. Part of Generation Z is rediscovering the faith of their grandparents, writes the Washington Post, and is reported by Jutarnji List. The Catholic Church...

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They seek that faith that the parents, respecting the principle of freedom, sacred in France, did not pass on to him. It is the young adults who ask for baptism...

PARIS (FRANCIA) (ITALPRESS) "Seeing closely the work you are carrying, I first feel so much gratitude for the unpredictable work of God. Like you and with you I am amazed by the number of people who reappear on the thresholds of faith and by how many adults ask for the sacraments of Christian initiation." Pope Leo XIV said, [...]

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www.cnews.fr broke the news in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France on Saturday, September 26, 2026.
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