Mary Harrington

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Midweek Quick Take: Is Instagram Catholic?

Post-literate image culture and the zoomer revival

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Mary Harrington
Apr 15, 2026
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Is the surge in American Gen Z conversions to Roman Catholicism in part due to the comparative friendliness of Catholicism to the image? Julia Yost argued recently that this is more congenial to the image-first online formation of today’s youth than Protestantism:

Protestantism, which began as a revolution against idolatry…

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