Catholic Millennials: A Strong Force, A Growing Majority

They're called ignorant snowflakes.

They're considered a group that leans more liberal in elections.

They also follow traditional values if you know where to find these people.

That's right. I'm talking about Millennials—those between the ages of 18 and 30.

But if you look outside secular colleges, or just avoid them entirely, you'll find there are plenty of Millennials who don't support Bernie Sanders or Hilary Clinton.

Being born in 1993, I myself am a Millennial. Most of my friends are fellow Millennials.

I met them. I know them. They share the same conservative and Catholic values I belief in. To say we belief abortion is a "constitutional right" is simply BS.

Most of my Millennial friends I met while I was at Benedictine College, a small private Catholic college along the banks of the Missouri River in Atchison, Kansas.

I spent all my four years of college at Benedictine, and I’m proud to call myself a Raven. It was a close-knit community, and I had a great time there.  There are plenty of Millennials who continue to fight for the right to life and want to make a difference in their own lives and the lives of others.

The liberal left paints Millennials as young adults who go with the flow and can't make up their own decisions in life. They are wrong. As I learned from a professor in one of my media classes at Benedictine, the Mainstream Media ignores the fact that the majority of people who go on the March for Life and call themselves pro-life are young adults. Most of them are Catholics and Christians.

Catholic Millennials have different beliefs than their counterparts on secular campuses. They truly have the will and desire to better themselves and grow stronger in their faith.

They are not individuals who follow a mob mentality. They can think for themselves and form their own opinions. They do not need CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News for that.

I know that if major news outlets ever decide to go onto a Catholic campus and interview students there, they'd get a far different response to issue than they would by interviewing students from a secular school. Just go to Benedictine and you will see what I mean.

Just as it is at Benedictine, it does not matter whether you are liberal or conservative. We share the same beliefs and help each other grow into the person we are called to be. We cultivate and strength the values given to us by God and our parents, and form them when we go off on our own—both during our college life and beyond.

The direction our country is heading towards depends on Catholic Millennials standing up for themselves and being the men or women they are. Millennials are the future of our country. They're the ones who'll decide whether we're a nation that is open to the Catholic faith and morals, or a demonized secular society that persecutes the faithful.