Gen Z are turning against social and digital media. In order to find meaning, morals, explanations and contentment, they are turning to religion. In America, one third of young people believe in a higher power, so only two thirds left to go. Of that one third, a percentage believe in a single supernatural all powerful creator. A percentage of them believe in the Christian version. And a percentage of them are Catholics. So you can see that I speak for the overwhelming majority.
We really have turned the tide. Catholicism is winning the argument!
https://mega.nz/file/gqMnBCgR#LMbmfhS1TN9eRxp8TbTLNfjMuYuC_ApppwZ_UnMIPdk
Platitude of the Day 
Shame on you Emma Barnett. Whilst the Today Programme team has no control over who appears on TFTD at least you can accurately describe who they are. Totally disingenuous to say he’s a businessman when you know right well that he’s there because he’s an advocate for some kind of religion. And then later Emma you had the effrontery to be pressing a government minister for an answer because the British people “have a right to know”. Yes we do have a right to know; in this case the right to know why the speaker qualifies for TFTD.
A couple of other things whilst I’m ranting: when he did get round to sneaking in ‘the religious bit’ it was St Paul. It’s almost always St Paul with these anodyne ‘Christian’ apologists. Is it because many of Christ’s pronouncements have become a bit toxic for some reason?
And finally: he was a rubbish speaker. Reading hesitantly from a prepared script. Oh dear TFTD, how has it come to this?
Graham
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To be fair to Studzinski, it is quite true that he has had a major business career (Blackstone, Morgan Stanley, HSBC), and has reinvented himself as a business-oriented philanthropist. I too thought he was reading very badly from a script the first time he was on, but it turns out he lost the use of a lung years ago and can speak only with hesitation.
None of that excuses the essential mendacity of his presentation. He was brought up as a RC in a closely Rome-aligned sect (?Jesuit), and it shows. We are constantly being told by Christians of all flavours that Gen Z are flocking to the churches, but we never learn how many of them don’t find the sort of community experience they think they want, and move on to something else.
Despite what Studzinski said about Paul, a fair proportion of those who look at Christianity must be dismayed at what they are expected to sign up to. For instance, almost every statement of belief in the Apostles Creed, as used in the CofE, requires the total suspension of any critical faculties. Just about the only passage it is possible to tentatively accept is “[Jesus] suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and was buried”, and the evidence for that is pretty weak.
Sorry to bang on myself.
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Although people like Studzinski keep banging on about Gen Z being more religious, the evidence is that they might think of themselves as being a bit more “spiritual”, but they are certainly not interested in his or the C of Es versions of Christianity.
https://humanists.uk/2025/04/10/gen-z-religious-revival-the-evidence-is-incomplete/
The Church Times suggested, “Not only is the Church seen as outdated: it has become an example of the failing institutions and traditional styles of leadership which Gen Z have come to doubt.”
I suppose there may be an increase due to immigration from more religious societies, but I can’t see there being a resurgence in Christianity among the children of those who have gradually left religion behind who are now the majority.
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