Father Flanagan to Newsmax: Young Americans Seek Truth

Father Patrick Flanagan told Newsmax on Wednesday that younger Americans are increasingly turning to faith as they grow disillusioned with modern institutions they view as politicized, performative, and disconnected from real-world outcomes.

He said that was the reason for the rising interest in religion and the recent uptick in Bible sales.

Flanagan, the chair of theology and religious studies at St. John’s University, said younger people are gravitating toward faith as they lose confidence in social and political institutions that he said promise much but deliver little.

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