April 2026 · Drawing on the Holy Cross Global Youth Survey (n = 4,889, 8 countries) and over 150 media sources tracked since December 2023. Something remarkable happened last Holy Saturday. Across hundreds of churches from Los Angeles to Paris, from London to Hong Kong, adults and teenagers stepped into baptismal fonts in numbers not seen in decades. The New York Times ran a front-page … Read More
Is There a Religious Awakening among Western Youth? Fashion, Spirituality, or a Deeper Shift?
In recent months, public debate in many Western countries has increasingly focused on a question that, until recently, would have seemed counter‑intuitive: is there a religious and faith-based awakening among young people? The answers offered vary widely from country to country, and even more so depending on the ideological or religious standpoint of those observing the phenomenon. For some commentators, … Read More