Adult baptisms: What’s driving the rise?

By effect of mimicry with Islam as well as by will to assert identity, young people who ask for baptism are often in search of strict frameworks in their religious and daily practice.

While a religious resurgence is guaranteed, the shape of it is not

When you read that a record 10,000 adults are to be baptised in France this Easter, it’s clear that a spiritual shift is taking place. What isn’t so clear is what shape that shift is taking, writes JASON OSBORNE

ANALYSIS. More than 45% of adults and over 33% of adolescents... the numbers of the baptists are exploding, but do not compensate for the collapse of the baptems of children.

Pauline readily acknowledges it: she was not touched by the fulgurance of grace, but her entry into catechumenate is the continuation of a path begun by little touch of pointillists since childhood. Born of an atheist family, if not anticlerical, it sweeps with a back of hand and a smile almost embarrassed the desire which she formulated, at the age of eleven, to be baptized. "It will pass to her," they had fun at the time. But the desire for sp…

Adult baptisms: What’s driving the rise?

Catholic dioceses across the world are reporting that record numbers of adults are seeking baptism at this year’s Easter Vigil.A baptism at the Easter Vigil in Westminster Cathedral, London, England, in 2019. © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.What kind of figures are dioceses seeing? And what are the baptismal candidates, known as catechumens, saying about their journeys to the Catholic Church?The Pillar takes a country-by-country look.🇦🇹 AustriaWha…

Social media and personal research driving France’s record baptism boom, survey reveals

The Catholic Church in France will welcome a record number of adults into the faith in 2025, with particularly strong growth in the numbers of young adults and teenagers, according to newly released statistics from the country’s Conference of Bi... [...]