Young people are converting to Catholicism en masse — driven by pandemic, internet, ‘lax’ alternatives
Sydney Johnston grew up in a nondenominational Christian household — but now the Upper West Side millennial is a devout Catholic.
“There’s just something so beautiful and transcendent about the rituals and the ancient history in the Catholic Mass that’s been preserved,” Johnston, 30, told The Post. “The church really communicates a degree of reverence that I didn’t find in the more liberal, laissez-faire approach of nondenominational churches.”
Confirmed in December 2024 at the Church of...