{"id":42204,"date":"2018-06-15T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=42204"},"modified":"2018-06-21T14:13:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T19:13:16","slug":"where-are-young-people-at-with-faith-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/15\/where-are-young-people-at-with-faith-and-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are Young People At with Faith and Religion??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find it endlessly fascinating to teach theology to undergraduates at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John\u2019s University. I observe two tendencies in recent years, and they\u2019re going in opposite directions. First, there is great skepticism toward organized religion and religious authorities. Second, there is growing interest in and openness to questions of faith, spirituality, prayer, and meaning.<\/p>\n<p>A recent survey of young Catholics in England suggests that there are interesting developments going in various direction there too. <em>Greater<\/em> Mass attendance (yes, you read that right), but less than orthodox views about God and widespread ignoring of the church\u2019s moral teachings. Some of this overlaps with my observations on young people in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>I teach undergrad liturgy courses, and of course we talk about symbols \u2013 that they are polyvalent, that they both express and form, that they can hold common meanings uniting a community, and the like. As an exercise to help students think about the varied ways in which they read symbols, this past year I put up two images: an Eastern Orthodox clergyman and a megachurch preacher in jeans, on stage next to a lit-up cross .<\/p>\n<p>I selected a vested Orthodox clergyman in the hope that it would be both somewhat familiar to most of them but also outside of their direct experience, since most students by far are Catholic, or Lutherans who have seen a pastor in an alb. What symbols do you see in the image of the Orthodox priest, I ask the class, and what do these symbols say to you?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/15\/where-are-young-people-at-with-faith-and-religion\/orthodox-priest\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-42205 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Orthodox-priest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>Here\u2019s what I get: His outfit says he\u2019s a know-it-all\u2026 he looks like he would talk down to us\u2026 he seems really judgmental\u2026 I bet he\u2019s very by-the-book and a stickler for rules. And so forth. This sort of thing is the default reaction of young people to religious authorities nowadays \u2013 it\u2019s in the water supply.<\/p>\n<p>And there I am, standing in front of the class in my habit! I guess I\u2019m happy that they feel comfortable being so honest in my presence. I\u2019m pretty sure that they would say, \u201cOh, we don\u2019t mean you, Fr. Anthony, we <em>like<\/em> the Benedictine values and the monasteries on our campuses\u201d \u2013 but I didn\u2019t think it helpful to derail the discussion by asking them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/15\/where-are-young-people-at-with-faith-and-religion\/infolaurengreenfield-com\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42206\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42206 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pastor-in-jeans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FWIW, most of them are not particularly drawn to the megachurch preacher either \u2013 they think he looks like a salesman or politician trying to sell them something that isn\u2019t very deep.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, it could be that the students don\u2019t like what they don\u2019t know. Maybe an image of a vested priest or Lutheran minister would elicit from them reactions of respect for a dedicated person with a holy ministry of leading worship and preaching. This fall I might add these images to the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>But alongside this skepticism toward organized religion, I detect a marked increase of interest in questions of faith and meaning, compared to five years ago. I hear more students saying things like this: I guess my parents were Catholic but we never went to church, and this course was very interesting for me to see what I missed out on\u2026 I wonder why so many people are religious and go to church\u2026 I\u2019ve never heard of worship making one\u2019s life more meaningful and I want to think more about this\u2026 I do wonder where to find meaning in today\u2019s crazy world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This past year, campus ministry at St. John\u2019s reported that attendance at the student Mass at the beginning of fall semester was markedly higher than past years, though the proportion of Catholic students is declining and is now barely over 50%. And attendance did not decline as much over fall semester as in previous years. Student attendance at daily Mass also increased noticeably this past year.<\/p>\n<p>Something\u2019s going on. Is this the Francis effect? I\u2019m not sure how many young people are tracking what the pope is doing. But many of their parents are \u2013 are they hearing more positive things now? And they\u2019re probably seeing at least some headlines at Facebook or on other apps about the pope saying things like \u201cWho am I to judge?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On to England. Here\u2019s what <em>Catholic Herald<\/em> reports on the <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicherald.co.uk\/commentandblogs\/2018\/06\/12\/analysis-rise-in-young-catholics-attending-mass-survey-suggests\/\">recent youth survey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the youth synod only a few months away, a major new survey of young Catholics in Britain has some startling findings. On the plus side,\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Complex Catholicism: The Lives and Faith of Young Catholics in England and Wales Today<\/em>\u00a0shows a strong increase in regular Mass attendance (at least monthly) from 25 per cent of all respondents in 2009 to 36 per cent in 2017. Irregular Mass attendance (less than monthly) has increased from 59 per cent in 2009 to 75 per cent today.<\/p>\n<p>But the survey also includes some unsettling findings about what young Catholics actually believe: well over half do not hold traditional Catholic beliefs on God, many believe that Jesus was only human and not the Son of God, and a large number are willing to ignore the Church\u2019s moral teachings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this poll an outlier? Could be. I suspect it\u2019s an indication of something afoot with young people today.<\/p>\n<p>What are your impressions of young people\u2019s views on religion and faith and meaning? And if you\u2019re a young person, what do <em>you<\/em> think is going on with yourself and your peers?<\/p>\n<p>awr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing interest in faith questions, increased church attendance, but rejection of moral teachings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":42212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[3116,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-new-ws","category-youth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Where Are Young People At with Faith and Religion?? 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