People appear to be entering the Catholic church in higher numbers. But folks also continue to leave.
You may have seen recent reports that OCIA numbers are up significantly for the Catholic church in the United States this year. The number being being fully initiated or completing their initiation appears to be higher both than last year and higher than 2019 (the last pre-COVID year). The National Catholic Register has a roundup of reports from individual dioceses. Here are a few of those cited in the article:
- Archdiocese of Oklahoma City: up 57% from 2025
- Archdiocese of Newark: up 30% from 2025; up 60% from 2019
- Archdocese of Boston: up 55% from 2025
- Diocese of Providence: up 76% from 2025
- The unsettled times we live in have people searching for stability and meaning
- The increase in immigration (until 2025)
- Continuing bounce-back from the significant drop in engagement and participation during the COVID lockdown era
- A change in the profile of those entering the church: from young adults preparing to marry, to young adults seeking membership for other reasons
- The first American pope has sparked interest in Catholicism among Americans
- Our present "golden age" of Catholic resources, presumably a reference to online resources such as Word on Fire and Hallow
Are these contradictory trends? In the New York Times, Ross Douthat suggests that the profiles of those entering the church are not the same as those leaving. In this theory, those who are entering are "seekers" who are attracted to Catholicism, perhaps for some of the reasons listed above; while those leaving may be so-called cradle Catholics or cultural Catholics whose social and spiritual ties to the church have frayed to the point that they no longer tether these folks. And consistent with a factor about which he writes frequently - declining birthrates - he notes that the incremental number each year of new cradle Catholics probably has been declining for some time.
Douthat also hypothesizes that the same megatrend - the abnormal, disruptive time in which we live - may be feeding both the "inbound" and "outbound" trends.
Douthat also points to research data from sociologist Ryan Burge that, in the US, higher levels of educational attainment correlate positively with higher levels of religious engagement. (For some reason, the opposite correlation holds true in Europe.) Douthat speculates that we may be witnessing a sort of polarization occuring in the Catholic church (and other religions) in the US, in which those entering the church are more highly educated, while those leaving are less highly educated. That's interesting, and to a diocesan official concerned about finances, it may be mildly hopeful (as higher levels of education tend to correlate with higher levels of income); but as Douthat notes, it's disconcerting to say the least for a faith that sees its primary mission as being to the poor.
UPDATE 02-Apr-2026 10:40 am CDST - Anne requested details on Ryan Burge's data. I'm pasting here an image of the bar charts he posted to X. It contains attributions to the data sources.
On a personal level, some (well, most) of my young adult children are presently unchurched. So it's of interest to me that the young adult seekers coming into the church have a similar, educated profile to by kids. Fingers crossed!
ReplyDeleteI don't think our younger son was a very diligent Mass attender during his college years. But that changed when he got married, and especially when they had kids. (Plus I credit our daughter-in-law for influencing things in that direction!)
DeleteIn our three parish family, we have 14 entering this year. Which is more than double from last year. I do think the pandemic was a big disruptor, and hopefully we are pulling out of some of the disruption.
ReplyDeleteThe bad news is of course that parishes have had to be merged. OCIA was merged, though people will belong to the parish they want to join. Four out of the 14 newbies will belong to St. Anthony's. We already have had one new member, but he only was with us for one day. He literally joined on his deathbed.
We are losing our school next fall, the students are being absorbed into the larger parish's school. None of the teachers are losing their jobs, they can all go over to St. B's, because of the expanded enrollment. Two teachers have decided to retire. That is about as good an outcome as we could hope for, but still sad. Our school had been founded in 1914.
We do have two seminarians from St. A's now. One will be a transitional deacon in May.
I haven’t read the article by Douthat. Later maybe. I stopped reading him a few years ago. Too predictable. Generally they are a waste of time because he’s a lousy analyst. He tends to make great leaps to his always conservative conclusions based on assumptions that are often unsupported by legitimate data. So I tried to look at the studies by Ryan Burge but didn’t get very far as he wants money to read his stuff. He’s a former Baptist pastor as well as a political scientist/ statistician. . After going in circles to try to “claim my free article” I ended up with a request to subscribe and an image of a chart on X that I would need an account with X to view. I refuse to have an account with X. I was interested in his claim that the more educated Americans are more religious than less educated Americans, which does not sync with most studies. I wanted to see his sources and methodology, but no luck.
ReplyDeleteMy sense is that young adults who are conservative politically (from those white Christian families who support trump) may be the majority of young adult converts who aren’t converting due to marriage.
But who knows. Those of you active in parishes would know more than I do. It’s too early to determine if this uptick is part of a genuine long- term trend or just a short- term fad. Barron and Hallow would definitely attract the more conservative “ seekers” and lose the more progressive seekers who might end up Episcopalian or UCC or even Buddhist instead.
My son in Boulder lives across the street from a Catholic Church that is the Newman Center for Colorado University. It was in the news a few years ago after a young woman killed herself following counseling from a priest and nun there about her homosexuality. Her parents blamed the priest and nun. They were trying to push her into conversion therapy to free her from her mortally sinful inclinations. It might have been that case that led to the ban on conversion therapy that the SC just found unconstitutional. I hadn’t yet heard about this when visiting our son and I went into the church to look around. It’s very easy to get a sense of a parish and its priests - conservative or progressive - from the way the church looks, and from the literature left in the racks, including the bulletin. When I was leaving I was shocked to see about a dozen young people had arrived, probably university students - all male- on their knees in the narthex. I decided to stay to see what was going to happen. The priest arrived to say a 5 pm mass (weekday) and then these young men got up and followed him into the nave. Several young women arrived a few minutes later, but they weren’t part of the on-their-knees on the hard floor of the narthex group. I found the scene to be somewhat off putting - almost creepy..
Burge's statement on X (accompanied by data in bar graph form) is, "In the United States, folks with higher levels of education are MORE likely to be weekly religious attenders. In Europe, it's the opposite. Higher educated folks are LESS likely to attend."
DeleteI assume "level of education" is functioning as a proxy for other, more root-cause factors (cultural, social, familial, historical?) I seriously doubt that there is much about the higher education content or experience in the US that makes it more likely to foster religious experience than European higher education.
Regarding who these young adults are and whether conservative Catholicism is what is attracting them: I am sure that is part of the picture. Vice President Vance, who apparently has a book coming out about his religious journey to Catholicism, may be an example. And Anne, I am sure you're more aware than I am that Washington DC has seen its share of conservative Catholic converts, some of whom would be young or at least youngish.
DeleteI expect a good percentage of these young seekers are from lukewarm (or cold) Catholic backgrounds. Why do they often find their way to conservative Catholic faith communities? I suggested recently that aesthetics are at least part of the answer. Another part may be that conservative Catholics are working harder to evangelize them.
"Another part may be that conservative Catholics are working harder to evangelize them."
DeleteI think there is some truth to that. Making an effort counts.
Yes, the conservative Catholics are a bit zealous and probably do try to convert others. Most progressive Catholics I have known don’t. They are quite willing to discuss with interested parties if asked but they don’t aggressively seek out people to convert.
DeleteBut I am very removed from Catholic-dom these days. I am aware that both of the parishes I once belonged to during the last 50 years have congregations that have shrunk by 33-50% in the last decade or less. I have no idea how many converts they’re training these days. I also had no idea that the archdiocese of DC is attracting unusual numbers of young adult converts. Most of the Catholics in the ADW don’t live in the city but in Maryland. Most young adults - single and married but no kids - do live in the city. They head for the suburbs after children arrive and they want something for them, like backyards, instead of the hip nightlife of their age group. I would be interested in your sources, Jim. Could you share them? You've piqued my curiosity. DC has multiple colleges and universities concentrated in a fairly small physical space. So there are a lot of college age and grad school age students here. The government fired many thousands of employees last year, creating a lot of openings for new employees.They learned the hard way that the chain saw approach hindered efficiency and they had to hire back - but only MAGA applicants. The bottom line from the DOGE rampage is that they not only didn’t save money, it cost a lot to fix the mess. A net loss. Plus at least one of the DOGE boys absconded with the Social Security files of all Americans. Since nobody can get a job now as a new hire with the federal government without passing a loyalty to trump interview. it could be that some of these new young adult arrivals in DC, drawn from MAGA, are interested in Catholicism because of Vance. Maybe?
Jim, I wanted to see Burge’s sources, and read about the methodology he used to produce his charts. Can you copy/paste that information?
DeleteHere you go, Jim. In today’s WaPo. I hope the link works. I’m guessing the priest in SC is that super right-wing priest with a blog? David Gibson is quoted too, and somebody notes that for every new young Catholic, 12 young Catholics leave. It’s a better place to meet potential partners than bars or apps. But if the weird behavior of the young men in Boulder is typival of these young men flocking to Catholicism, and I was a young woman there, I wouldn’t go trolling in that particular parish.
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"Jim, I wanted to see Burge’s sources, and read about the methodology he used to produce his charts. Can you copy/paste that information?"
DeleteI've updated the original post - at the bottom of it, I've pasted a snapshot of his X post, including the bar charts. The latter include the data sources.
Me neither, Anne.
DeleteThere are a couple of interesting pieces on the America site that are relevant to the subject:
https://www.americamagazine.org/tag/bishops/
Cardinal Roche is quoted as saying that liturgy is meant to promote unity, rather than personal preference.
There is also an interview of Bishop Michael Martin by Zac Davis and Ashley McKinniss on Jesuitical. He is the bishop of Charlotte, NC. He has recently been a subject of controversy over the reception of Communion kneeling at a Communion rail. He wants to discourage it. I had mixed feeling over that. There is nothing inherently wrong with the practice, but also it doesn't promote unity. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." And also it can become a sort of cultural marker, which isn't good. Also Bishop Martin is a member of a religious order, OFM, the Fransiscan Friars Minor. Religious orders don't typically promote "doing your own thing" with liturgy, especially things that draw attention to yourself.
Anne, thanks for that WaPo link. It works, and the article is worth reading. Good to know that the Post is keying its content off NewGathering :-)
DeleteThe "gym bros" aspect is a little eyebrow-raising, but hey - get them in the door then let Jesus take over, right? Besides, we're supposed to be a hospital for sinners, not a club for the virtuous (or however the saying is supposed to go).
Re: the gatherings of beautiful young people at St. Joseph's in NYC - that is not a new phenomenon; Chicago and presumably other large cities also have had yuppie parishes in yuppie neighborhoods with young-adult-focused ministries for decades. But the social media aspect is newer. And if the numbers are increasing, I guess that's a new thing, too.
Katherine - Cardinal Cupich also has discouraged kneeling to receive communion. It's not something I would have spoken out against, but he's the boss.
DeleteJim, as a progressive Catholic who left because of the slow, decades long move to the right in the church with JPII and Benedict, and definitely not returning now the MAGAfication of Catholicism in recent years, I found the article troubling. Everyone who was quoted except David Gibson (like Longnecker, who is extreme) represents the conservative fringe of the church. The notion that this young Catholic "influencer", flexing his muscles, bare chested like Hegseth, who says that being Catholic is his "brand" is very offputting. The comments reflect a lot of these same thoughts. The article did note that 12 young adults leave for every new recruit. What exactly are they being recruited to be part of? It sounds like evangelical christianity but with nice churches and fancy costumes on the presider and smells and bells. Not to mention the pizza party starter (paid for by ?) and the wine social after. Will these new recruits be exposed to the vision of Popes Francis and Leo? The preferential option for the poor? The church's social justice teachings? The gospels?
DeleteI'm all for young adults going back to the old ways to look for life partners - school, friends, family, colleagues, church, shared interest activities (hiking clubs, social service volunteering) etc. That's how everyone we know in our boomer generation found their spouses. It's also how our three sons met theirs. Well, the eldest met his first wife via friends. He met his second wife (going on 14 years of marriage) using an app. It's a lot more wholesome than hanging out in bars or meeting up with strangers somewhere - hopefully somewhere public and safe in the daytime. From what I read, lunch dates and coffee dates are popular with the app users. And I do know of some successes with the apps.
Somehow in all the back and forth with Ryan Burge's Substack I ended up on his freebie email list. Today's email was another interesting one, graphing the continuous decline for decades in both church going and church membership trends by age cohort. The Catholics are doing the worst! He focused on membership in a religious congregation. Here is the summary-
"So, what have we learned here about membership in a local house of worship?
1. Young people are not too keen on joining organizations. That’s even among young people who still identify as religious. Which means that church membership is going to inevitably decline in the decades to come.
2. Evangelicals and Black Protestants seem to do a better job at pushing membership than their mainline and Catholic counterparts.
3. Several factors predict church membership: marriage, age, and gender all exhibit strong, positive relationships with membership.
4. Being a member of a local house of worship is incredibly predictive of being a regular attender at a church, synagogue, mosque, etc. This data indicates that a member is three times more likely to be a weekly attender compared to a non-member, even after controlling for all kinds of other factors.
This does feel like another example of Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone thesis. The long term trends in American civil society is in the direction of “not joining stuff.” That was true for the Elks, the Moose, and bowling leagues several decades ago. That same social phenomenon is hitting houses of worship now."
I love data and graphs and charts (not surprising given my profession). I love analyzing them. I'm going to look at the source data he used for both articles. Because I'm not totally convinced that his analyses are completely on target.
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DeleteSorry, I hit the Publish button by mistake, so removed the previous comment and will see if I can get through it here.
Delete"as a progressive Catholic...I found the article troubling. Everyone who was quoted except David Gibson (like Longnecker, who is extreme) represents the conservative fringe of the church."
I think there are a few things at work here. One is: the Catholic church always has, does, and will continue to attract conservatives. Even Trump voters. The Catholic church is a big tent, big enough to have plenty of room for conservatives. And liberals.
Another is: the church is, quite literally, conservative, in the sense that it conceives of itself as conserving teachings and traditions (the Bible and revelation, doctrines, moral teaching, the lives of saints, etc.). I think that part of it will always appeal to a certain kind of a person who values that sort of conservation / conservatism. It may also appeal to thoughtful liberals.
Another is: these younger generations don't come from the same sets of divisions and conflicts that we do. They may be more amenable to things like women's rights and concern about climate change than (some) conservatives of our generation.
"The notion that this young Catholic "influencer", flexing his muscles, bare chested like Hegseth, who says that being Catholic is his "brand" is very offputting."
For good or ill, being proud of his chiseled physique is where he comes from - it's sort of his starting point for entering the church. Ideally, once he is in church, he'll absorb a new set of values where having washboard abs and enormous biceps are no longer the most important things in his life. Not that there is anything wrong with being physically fit. We should care for our bodies just as we should care for all God's creation. There are a lot of guys who lift weights and value being strong, and if this "influencer" helps attract them to the Catholic church - maybe that's not such a bad thing.
"Will these new recruits be exposed to the vision of Popes Francis and Leo? The preferential option for the poor? The church's social justice teachings? The gospels?"
Probably no less (and, we might hope, even more!) than I have been in my parish. Certainly, if they attend mass regularly, they'll be exposed to the Gospels. As for Francis, Leo and the preferential option for the poor - let's hope so.
Those enumerated items from Burge - I guess I don't find them very shocking. It all accords with what I see from my particular (low) perch.
I hate to say this, but your conservative leanings may be clouding your vision. Sorry but the sexualized flaunting of the “influencer’s” body really is inappropriate as a way to get young men and women to church. Yes - the gospels will be read. But the homilies for some gospels may be, hmmm, limited to NOT pointing out that Jesus did say to care for the poor and welcome the stranger. There is a comment at the America site by a priest who is ignoring a specific order from his bishop to NOT GIVE homilies that might “upset” donors - specifically homiliesbthat the 60% of white MAGA Catholics don’t like. You have made similar comments here. You don’t preach the gospels in a way that makes MAGA parishioners unhappy.
DeleteSo what exactly is the church conserving? I would say - traditional sexual morality, obedience to the church’s man- made rules, traditional gender roles and teaching that women are meant to be subservient to men. They do not emphasize much of Jesus’s teachings ( well, the popes do, but not too many American bishops and priests) on caring for the poor, welcoming the stranger, abandoning greed - the dangers of wealth, rejecting violence and wars, much less the indirect teachings on climate change ( biblical - caring for the earth). When you have bishops claiming that Charlie Kirk was a modern St Paul it seems the Catholic Church is abandoning Jesus for MAGA.
The Catholic Church in my adult lifetime did attract both liberals and conservatives. I started out conservative, but evolved into being a “ liberal” after decades of study, prayer, and reflection. I began to see that Jesus’s teachings were more embodied in “ liberal” policies than in conservative policies focused on money, individualism at the expense of communal needs, wealth, greed, violence etc. But there had been no real polarization for a long time. By today’s GOP standards, Reagan was a liberal. In the church, as the Latin mass crowd gained influence, and the B16-JPII conservative bishops and priests (even those who don’t push the Latin mass) took over parishes, the polarization took off. And MAGA was embraced. Progressive Catholics leave. . The church’s Social Justice teachings were not often taught, and I doubt these new young recruits will hear much about them either.
The simplest explanation is a kind of regression to the mean explanation. Any time you have an extreme value, e.g. more traffic deaths than normal or less traffic deaths than normal, the next likely value will be closer to the mean.
ReplyDeleteThe recent extreme trend for Catholicism has been many people leaving and few people joining, so having fewer people leave and more people joining is the more likely event since it is closer to the long time mean.
The most likely people to experience conversions are Nones rather than religious people. Two great historical examples are Thomas Merton and Dorthy Day. They both came from families of little or no religion. Both spent their youths questing for deeper meaning to their lives. Both developed very unique appreciations of Catholicism from those quests. One writer described them as "radical" rather than either progressive or conservative Catholics because they both developed Catholic lives that were deeply critical of both America and of American Catholicism.
Religious movements (whether Catholic religious orders or Protestants sects) usually flower among those who are most alienated from both established churches and their societies, e.g. among the poor, or immigrants, etc. Why? Established people whether in society are in the church have the least to gain and most to lose by change, while the most marginal in church or society have the most to gain and the least to lose.
America's long-term religious trend from the time of the colonies has been from being less religious to more religious. While many of the colonists came here for religious reasons most did not. Most came for freedom, land and wealth. Those trends continued as we expanded across the continent and more immigrants came. Expansion of Protestantism occurred because of a long series of Great Revivals that attracted nonreligious people. Expansion of Catholicism occurred from the great expansion of Catholic institutions to help Catholic immigrants who by and large were not very religious. The bishops were afraid they would be attracted to the Protestant revivalists not to established Protestant churches.
All of this ultimately culminated in the 1950s with the many church- going people fueled by the cold war against communism. At the same time Poland became very Catholic in opposition to Russian occupation and Ireland became very Catholic in opposition to England. Of course, as communism crumbled and Ireland began to flourish economically all the "patriotic" religion to American, Ireland and Poland has crumbled.
American religion is very different than European religion in two ways.
First since we don't have established churches supported by the state. Religious professionals here have to be very attentive to the religious market. Second since we are very individualistic, religion here is more about heart and mind rather than social behavior. Yes, some people here are attractive to upscale religion (Episcopalians are the great benefiters in this respect) but more are looking for more meaningful lives.
"The simplest explanation is a kind of regression to the mean explanation. Any time you have an extreme value, e.g. more traffic deaths than normal or less traffic deaths than normal, the next likely value will be closer to the mean."
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting thought, and I think there is truth to it. For instance it is said that the so called "baby boom" (which includes me) after WWII is an anomaly, and now we are returning to a mean of fewer births. Religious practice has also seemed to ebb and flow over time.
If you go to this link, you can see a graph showing the birth rate from 1900 until 2015 or so.
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It shows pretty big swings during the first 3/4 or so of the 20th century, after which it levels off and becomes considerably less variable. It seems pretty easy to correlate with various external events: it drops during the Great Depression; it picks up again with the wartime economy and then really takes off with the soldiers coming home from WWII. It declines pretty precipitously from 1960-1980 or so, which would correspond with the advent and distribution of birth control. And then it's relatively even thereafter, which I'd attribute to couples using birth control to manage the number of children.
If the same trend line was not of birth rates but of a factory producing widgets, productivity and quality experts would say that until 1980, the process was not well-controlled, but then something happened after 1980 to get production under control and predictable.
There is an article at the America website today that illustrates why this recent influx of the young, especially young men, may not really be a great thing for the church.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/04/06/religious-right-clavicular-catholicism/
If these people are the new young Catholics, we had better pray that Jesus’s messages get through because they aren’t a group with a culture that I want to see my two Catholic grandchildren immersed in. Nor my two non+ Catholic grandchildren who attend a Catholic school now and will also in Spain, where they will be totally immersed in Catholic history - some of it pretty ugly, like the Crusades were, from the Inquisition to the church”s support of Franco.
DeleteThe excerpt copied below says they look to the Catholic church for order and beauty. It’s obvious that they need some of both. But will they learn to see true beauty? That doesn’t involve hammering their own faces to achieve the popular at the moment appearance. Will they understand that the Crusades are a blot on the history of the church, not a great thing and look to St Francis as a role model instead? That veils and incense are symbols not substance. That veils on women are a symbol of ancient Jewish patriarchy meant to be a way to keep young men’s thoughts “pure” by hiding an important aspect of female beauty? A practice still required of millions of Muslim and Jewish Orthodox women?
“ Clavicular is not unique in his attraction to Catholicism. Across apparently disconnected corners of the internet, there is a surge of interest in the church. Young men with crusader avatars and Vatican flags in their bios post about the Latin Mass alongside racist memes; influencers share inspiration boards full of pictures of veils, incense and stone chapels mixed with traditional images of white femininity and homemade bread; tech billionaires talk about the coming of the Antichrist and the importance of the Christian West while racing toward a post-human, artificial intelligence-led future.
A strange coalition of “tradwives,” “groypers,” transhumanists and now looksmaxxers has converged on the Roman Catholic Church as a source of order and beauty in a fallen world. ”.
Yep, I saw that article yesterday, too - in fact was contemplating a separate post about it.
Delete"Clavicular" and that subculture are so foreign to my life/world that I wouldn't know where/how to start with them. Those are not the young adults who are coming forward for OCIA at our parish, and as far as I can tell, they are not attending our masses.
I don't think our parish would attract them, if they are looking for order and beauty. Our space isn't the kind of classically beautiful space that a person thinks of when they think of a traditional Catholic church. Our music can be pretty good, but it's not traditional (it leans more contemporary). And our pastor isn't a culture-warrior type who emphasizes so-called Catholic orthodoxy. I'd like to think that anyone who hears my homilies, or reads them here, would say the same about me.
A neighboring parish tends to check those boxes more than we do. And one does see more young adults of a certain type (men in suits and ties, women wearing mantillas) there.
The article notes that the list of 'groups' ("tradwives", "groypers", transhumanists, looksmaxxers) are all different from one another, come from different starting points and possibly are looking for different things from the church. So perhaps it's hard to generalize about what they're looking for.
“ Those are not the young adults who are coming forward for OCIA at our parish, and as far as I can tell, they are not attending our masses.”
DeleteFortunately for you!
There are many articles recently that are triumphantly proclaiming that the young adults are coming back! I wonder how many will stay. The young men I saw in Boulder at the Newman Center parish ( guessing Colorado University students - my son’s house across the street from this parish is walking distance to the main campus) sort of repelled me with their over the top piety—Waiting on their knees on the hard stone floor until the priest arrived before they would go into the church. However at least they looked pretty normal - no suits, no hammered faces, or bizarre clothing or visible racist tattoos. They looked like clean cut college kids. Shirt and pants or jeans - casual but neat. The young women who showed up when mass started were dressed like normal college students (jeans and sweaters) without mantillas. They didn’t look like trad wife material, or like 1950s Catholic women in dresses and mantillas or scarves. I consider the fact that they wore the normal attire for their college generation to be a good sign.
I think right now Catholicism may be a bit of a fad for many, especially those who are from politically conservative backgrounds, because of Vance. He’s not even a Christian as far as I’m concerned but he wants everyone to admire his “spiritual journey” to a more intellectual Christian denomination than the evangelical one he grew up with. He couldn’t join the ECUSA because it’s too liberal to demonstrate his right- wing bona fides. It would be interesting to follow up with the younger converts in about ten years to see how many are still active Catholics. I have heard anecdotal evidence that few converts are very active after a few years, especially those who converted for a spouse who wanted a full blown nuptial mass wedding and other young converts or to keep Nona happy. In the meantime, it sounds as if your parish might be non- radical enough in either direction to hold on to more of them than parishes full of Clavicular fans.
"Clavicular", groypers, and looksmaxxers. Clavicular sounds like he is into self-harm as either an attention getting tactic, or to relieve extreme anxiety. As far as I am concerned, "groyper" is one of the most brain dead terms someone has made up lately. Looksmaxxer sounds like someone who is into self harm also.
DeleteI do know what transhumanism is. It seems incompatible with Catholicism or Christianity. And tradwives seem like women who like to be online bragging about their housekeeping and homemade bread.