Pre-Evangelization and Young Adult Native Nones: A New Paradigm for Reaching the Unchurched

What motivates American young adult native nones or those who have grown up without a religious background to investigate the Catholic faith? What turns them off? How do we reach them? Tamra Hull Fromm re-examines the role of pre-evangelization in the contemporary context and presents a micro-study of twenty-four native nones who chose to investigate the Catholic Church through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) in the Archdiocese of Detroit USA.