Sep 23, 2024 06:55 PM
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The campus ministry boom
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024...istry-boom
EXCERPT: . . . Chris’s story is one instance of an increasingly common experience among the current generation of college students, many of whom are turning to the Catholic Church when progressive secular values fail to provide them with meaning and purpose. On many campuses, orthodox and traditional Catholic ministries are thriving.
Unchanging truth, often said to be a liability for Christianity, emerges at some junctures as a selling point—now more than ever, as Generation Z (those born between 1997 and 2012) both lacks and desires spiritual and ideological formation to an unprecedented degree. Some of our most talented young people, disillusioned with the scientism and progressivism peddled on elite campuses, are choosing the eternal option: orthodoxy, with all its demands of doctrinal consistency and moral stringency.
Many Christian campus ministries are reporting rising levels of interest. But the Catholic ministries seem best able to offer what these young people seek, for reasons partly perennial and partly practical.
Traditional Catholicism is everything the secular world is not. One might be tempted to describe young people’s turn to tradition as a rebellion against rainbow flags and compulsory pronouns. And perhaps some do seek to deploy the rituals and language of the Church in this polemical way.
But the larger reality is both more simple and more profound: Catholic campus ministries are thriving because they are firmly anchored in the transformational power of the Gospel. (MORE - missing details)
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The campus ministry boom
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024...istry-boom
EXCERPT: . . . Chris’s story is one instance of an increasingly common experience among the current generation of college students, many of whom are turning to the Catholic Church when progressive secular values fail to provide them with meaning and purpose. On many campuses, orthodox and traditional Catholic ministries are thriving.
Unchanging truth, often said to be a liability for Christianity, emerges at some junctures as a selling point—now more than ever, as Generation Z (those born between 1997 and 2012) both lacks and desires spiritual and ideological formation to an unprecedented degree. Some of our most talented young people, disillusioned with the scientism and progressivism peddled on elite campuses, are choosing the eternal option: orthodoxy, with all its demands of doctrinal consistency and moral stringency.
Many Christian campus ministries are reporting rising levels of interest. But the Catholic ministries seem best able to offer what these young people seek, for reasons partly perennial and partly practical.
Traditional Catholicism is everything the secular world is not. One might be tempted to describe young people’s turn to tradition as a rebellion against rainbow flags and compulsory pronouns. And perhaps some do seek to deploy the rituals and language of the Church in this polemical way.
But the larger reality is both more simple and more profound: Catholic campus ministries are thriving because they are firmly anchored in the transformational power of the Gospel. (MORE - missing details)
