New data from the Barna Group shows that church attendance surged in 2025, led primarily by Gen Z and Millennials. For the first time since Barna began tracking attendance, “Millennials and Gen Z Christians are attending church… much more often than are older generations,” Barna reported. “These are easily the highest rates of church attendance among young Christians since they first hit Barna’s tracking.”

Barna described the trend as “the clearest indication of meaningful spiritual renewal” in decades.

But here’s the catch: these summaries lump “church attendance” into one bucket without distinguishing between Bible-preaching churches and systems that preach a false way of salvation. In practice, a significant share of America’s youth is flocking to Catholic gatherings. For these young people, increased church attendance simply means hearing the wrong message more often.

The Catholic Church has never struggled to draw crowds. Ritual, hierarchy, tradition, and cultural identity are powerful attractors — especially for younger generations searching for structure and meaning.

But Catholic doctrine has not changed. Rome still teaches salvation through sacraments, considers Mary a co-redemptrix, and promotes the Eucharist as a literal God to be adored. A growing crowd inside a system that denies justification by faith alone is a reinforcement of error.

Rome Pushes ‘Unity’ With Protestants

In December, the Vatican released a new book celebrating six decades of theological dialogue between Catholics and Methodists. Titled We Believe in One God: Sixty years of Methodists and Catholics walking together, the book was produced by the Methodist–Roman Catholic International Commission and published by the Vatican Publishing House.

“Our Commission has confirmed that the consensus between Methodists and Catholics about the foundation of faith and the source of our salvation far outweighs our remaining differences,” the authors wrote.

This sounds nice. However, those “remaining differences” include issues Scripture treats as non-negotiable: the authority of Scripture, justification by faith alone, the priesthood of believers, and the false Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist.

The book praises Methodists for their willingness to recognize “that the Lord’s Table belongs to the fulness of Christian worship.” Translation: Rome is successfully pulling Protestants into Rome’s fold and calling it unity.

TPUSA Brings Eucharistic Adoration to a Mega-Conference

This push is even moving into the conservative political world, in spaces many people assume are Protestant.

At Turning Point USA’s sold-out, end-of-year AmericaFest conference in Phoenix (Dec. 18–21), organizers scheduled a breakout session that included Eucharistic adoration — time for attendees to worship the “consecrated” wafer.

Cindy Ketcherside, co-chair of Arizona Right to Life’s Catholic Action Network committee, framed the adoration as central to national renewal: “I think that we all need to focus on Jesus,” she said, arguing that bringing “Christ in the Eucharist” into the middle of a major political gathering is “crucial for renewal in the country.”

In addition to the Eucharistic Adoration event, the breakout session featured a discussion panel that included Father Will Schmidt and TPUSA’s Jack Posobiec, alongside CatholicVote CEO Kelsey Reinhardt.

While this came as a surprise to many Protestant TPUSA fans, Catholic organizations have quietly partnered with Turning Point for years.

Let’s Make It a True Revival!

Church attendance is rising and young people are searching. With a tract like Why is Mary Crying or Is There Another Christ? we can do our part to ensure a true revival, free from the bondage of Rome.