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Lapsing at college

Parents know that college is a crucial formative period in life, a time when students begin to make their own choices and settle their own beliefs as independent young adults. Sadly, Dynamic Catholic  states that 85 percent of Catholic young adults stop practicing their faith within ten years of their confirmation, with many of them lapsing during college. [1]