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A Gallup poll found that 42% of young men in the United States now say religion is "very important" in their lives, a 14-percentage-point rise from the prior year.
Catholic leaders across the country have reported sharp increases in adult converts alongside that shift.
Actor David Henrie, who played Justin Russo on Disney Channel's "Wizards of Waverly Place," has been watching the same movement from his own parish pew and is directing a portion of his current work toward that audience.
The mechanism Henrie identifies is an absence rather than a presence. Young adults, he says, find the secular world empty and begin looking elsewhere. He was among that cohort himself before converting.
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