More than 20 percent of all adults and over a third of millennials in the United States are not affiliated with a religion. For at least a decade, this number has been on the rise.
Sexual abuse by clergy and a poor response by the church hierarchy have led many young Catholics to lose trust in their religious institution. Some 36 percent of those without religious affiliation report having grown up Catholic.
But countering this trend is a movement led by millennials who are devoted to bringing Catholicism back on college campuses — with a modern flair.