{"id":11984,"date":"2026-06-15T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/actualites\/nouvelles\/adult-baptisms-rise-sign-renewal-catholic-church-quebec\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:17:10","slug":"adult-baptisms-rise-sign-renewal-catholic-church-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/adult-baptisms-rise-sign-renewal-catholic-church-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Baptisms on the Rise: A Sign of Renewal for the Catholic Church in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The number of adult baptisms in Quebec has risen markedly in recent years. What is driving this shift? In a recent broadcast of <i>Questions d&#8217;actualit\u00e9<\/i>&nbsp;on Radio VM, a French-language Catholic radio station at 91.3 FM, two guests shared their reflections on a reality that is quietly transforming Catholic communities: Alexandre Gauvin, coordinator of diocesan pastoral ministry at the Archdiocese of Quebec, and Gustavo Adolfo Garay Ortega, director of the <i>Centre \u00e9tudiant Dominicum<\/i>, a Catholic pastoral centre for students and young professionals in Montreal.<\/p>\n\n<p>International students, newcomers to Canada, and young adults in search of meaning are increasingly knocking at parish doors. Their paths bear witness to a profound spiritual search, and they are breathing new life into the Church.<\/p>\n\n<p>Watch the full conversation to hear our guests reflect on this hopeful development and what it means for the future of the Church in Quebec.<\/p>\n\n<p><i>Available in French only:<\/i><\/p>\n\n<p><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gD9GKynSq4g?si=K_GmP8NQjsFXSBmT\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of adult baptisms in Quebec has risen markedly in recent years. What is driving this shift? In a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}