Prestigious, selective, and predominantly liberal Stanford University is witnessing a Catholic revival “as a growing share of Gen Z students embrace the 2,000-year-old faith,” the California Post reported Sunday.
\n\nStanford, known for its formidable list of high intellect and successful alumni, has seen a three-fold increase in Catholic converts, Fr. Bart Hutcherson, pastor of the Catholic Community at the school, told the Post.
\n\nLocated just 30 miles south of San Francisco, the exclusive university has graduated 13 Nobel Prize winners, 4 Supreme Court justices, and founders of Internet and Silicon Valley tech firms, including Google, Netflix, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard.
\n\nA total of 46 adults entered the church at Easter this year, up from 14 the previous year, he said, with regular masses packed with hundreds of other young Catholics in recent months.
\n\nWhile the number 46 may not seem large in a student population of over 17,000, it is an “astonishing turnaround” at an institution that averaged just four adult baptisms annually for about three decades, he explained.
\n\n“There is, not just at Stanford, a sense of recovery of tradition and what beauty teaches us about God,” Fr. Hutcherson told the Post. “It’s very, very exciting.”
\n\nHutcherson said he’s sought…
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