{"id":15714,"date":"2026-03-10T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15714"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:43:09","slug":"fox-highlights-the-interest-in-church-going-amongst-gen-z-example-a-catholic-church-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15714","title":{"rendered":"FOX &#8211; Highlights the interest in church going amongst GEN Z; example a Catholic Church in Manhattan."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have seen this in our own Catholic Church in Croton; more young people. I facilitate OCIA (the acronym for learning about Catholicism and receiving the sacraments) and right now we have three young women &#8211; 20, 21 and 24 &#8211; who are entering the Church. And we have a half dozen teenagers who are completing their sacraments. I was at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camdendiocese.org\/wci\/rite-of-election\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.camdendiocese.org\/wci\/rite-of-election\/\">Rite of Election <\/a>at St Patrick&#8217;s last Sunday. It is a ceremony for &#8220;Catechumens&#8221; who will be baptized and then receive the Eucharist and Confirmation at the Easter Vigil. There were about 2,000 very happy and excited people at the Cathedral &#8211; 500 catechumens and their supporters.  Marvelous!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GEN Z REVIVAL: NYC church sees lines out the door every Sunday\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KGgxWeIVB1s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have seen this in our own Catholic Church in Croton; more young people. I facilitate OCIA (the acronym for learning about Catholicism and receiving the sacraments) and right now we have three young women &#8211; 20, 21 and 24 &#8211; who are entering the Church. And we have a half dozen teenagers who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-stuff","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15715,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15714\/revisions\/15715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}