As pastor of a parish in South Carolina, I am witnessing a remarkable trend: Almost every week I receive a call, email or visit from at least one young man interested in learning more about the Catholic religion. They are older teenagers and both single and married men in their 20s and early 30s.
So many of them have joined our OCIA class that our parish’s director of faith formation has had to run an extra course in the summer. Here in the Bible Belt, many of the inquirers are exploring historic Christianity from a background of contemporary evangelicalism.
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