'In recent years, seemingly out of nowhere, a little-known figure in Catholic evangelism erupted into a full-scale cultural phenomenon among young people in America.' -petermlaffin
But in recent years, seemingly out of nowhere, a little-known figure in Catholic evangelism erupted into a full-scale cultural phenomenon among young people in America. The Rev. Mike Schmitz, an earnest and square-jawed priest and campus minister from the University of Minnesota Duluth, saw his podcastcatapult to No.
“I think there’s a need among young people that they really need to know the faith,” Schmitz recently told theSchmitz recalled the religious education classes of his youth , in which students largely turned out and simply went through the motions for the sake of tradition and making family happy. But Generation Z is different in this regard, according to Father Mike.
“I’ve got this theory when it comes to the rise of the ‘nones.’ I’m relatively convinced they’ve always been there, but now they’re finally saying what they actually believe. For so long, people wondered why didn’t parents pass their faith on to the next generation? It turns out boomerspass on their faith. And even though they were going to church and professing to believe in Christianity, they really believed in something else. But they still checked the box and said, ‘I’m a Catholic.
What many boomers truly believed and passed on to their children, according to Father Mike, was something called moralistic therapeutic deism, or MTD, a term coined by sociologist Christian Smith to describe a system of belief that emphasizes being a good person and the therapeutic benefits of religion over repentance, adherence to religious practice, and building character through suffering.
Father Mike’s theologically robust content, coupled with his infectious vitality — he is perpetually bursting, tripping over his words because he’s so bowled over by the reality of Jesus — is imbuing Gen Z with a desire to attain something far greater than the comfort and convenience of MTD: namely, the infinitely meaningful adventure of a life given to Christ. And yet, the episodes of“I’ve always loved C.S. Lewis,” Father Mike said.
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