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TRIGGERnometry · Why Crazy Activism is Taking Over the West — Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

And there's a problem with these data, which is it tends to be quite anecdotal.

So you go out to a lot of dioceses and parishes and say, oh, bigger class at the returning order of Catholics coming in ever that we've seen in 15 years, 20 years, 30 years.

And I want that to be true.

I mean, I deeply want that to be true.

But I also looked at the Pew data that say that 840 Catholics leave the church each year for every 100 who come in.

That's not good.

Now, an explanation might be that the 100 who come in are on fire and the 840 who leave are boomers like me who were signing up in parishes and they chose not to attend in the first place.

They're just disaffiliating, but they were lukewarm to begin with at best.

That's a possible explanation, but we need to know more.

Now, young men, particularly under 30, for the first time in the past two years, have upticked in their designation as none, N-O-N-E.

So this idea that you would be, what's your religion?

whole bunch of categories, or none.

Nobody ever said none.

When I was born in the mid-60s, 1% of Americans said none.

And now it's about 32% of young adults say none.

And for the first time, young males have started to say none less.

They started to come back just for the past two years, a little fish hook on the bottom of that line.

And, you know, I'm hoping for the best and fostering it as well as I can.

Pardon the pun.

For sure.

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