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Back in the Pews: A Hudson Valley Catholic Revival

Episode 52: Back in the Pews: A Hudson Valley Catholic Revival

Catholic churches in Red Hook and Rhinebeck are filling back up. Reporter Athan Yanos investigates who's returning, and why.

Show notes

The Catch-Up host Walter Mullin sits down with Daily Catch reporter Athan Yanos to unpack his in-depth feature on a quiet but striking reversal: Catholic churches in Red Hook and Rhinebeck are filling up. Yanos spent weeks embedded in the parish community at St. Christopher's and Good Shepherd, interviewing seven congregants whose returns to faith trace back not to headlines or trends, but to grief, dislocation, and a search for something solid. The conversation ranges from local parking-lot overflow to global forces, from Pope Leo to the legacy of the clergy abuse crisis, and from CYO basketball to the role TikTok may be playing in a new Catholic revival.

Produced by Emily Sachar, Walter Mullin, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud at the Radio Free Rhinecilff studio

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