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Story of mah life!

"But Gen-Xers may be starting a trend -- young people making their own way back to Rome, despite misguided teachers. After a generation or two of malformation, today's young Catholics still have an appetite for what the Church offers. Colleen Carroll, author of The New Faithful: Embracing Christian Orthodoxy, spent several years interviewing young Christians. She says, "A fair number of the young adults I interviewed for my book labeled themselves 'reverts' -- those who left the Church consciously, or simply fell away, then had powerful conversion experiences that led them back to the Church." In many of their cases, they left as teenagers who were turned away by what they often cite as "spiritually dead worship." Increasingly, though, they're finding lively fellowship and community worship focused on the Eucharist -- something very different from their childhood experience of the Faith."