CatholicVote, a Catholic advocacy organization, announced Tuesday the launch of Zeale, a digital platform it said will have “Gen Z in mind.”
In a statement announcing Zeale‘s launch, CatholicVote characterized Generation Z, often defined as people born between 1997 and 2012, as searching for God. The platform’s mission is “to put high-quality Catholic content, community, and prayer directly into the hands of a generation formed online,” the organization said in its statement.
“CatholicVote exists to help Catholics live their faith in public life. Zeale empowers the faithful to find God through news and other high-quality programming, while building community in a way that forms a healthy worldview, deepens conviction, and inspires action,” said Kelsey Reinhardt, president and CEO of CatholicVote. “Zeale engages people in the political and cultural discussions of our time through the heart and imagination. Through Zeale, we aim to inspire every American to live out the truth through the lens of beauty and goodness.”
CatholicVote also noted in its press release that “Zeale is not exclusively for 20-somethings” but instead for “everyone who wants to bring faith into their daily life, including the way we consume media.”
“Zeale is more than content,” said Reinhardt. “It’s community. A place to join daily prayer, post intentions, and connect with others, living with purpose and hope, take back the culture to proclaim the good news and carry our faith into every corner of our lives.”
Zeale, which will be available on both mobile and desktop, will feature news about the top stories of the day as viewed from a Catholic perspective. Besides news, the platform will host a large digital library of podcasts, documentaries, curated shows, short movies, and other special programming.
The platform will also allow users to access prayer communities where users have access to daily Mass readings, the ability to pray with and pray for others, prayer intentions submissions, and join the platform’s community in calls for collective prayer in response to urgent news, according to the press release.
CatholicVote, which was founded in 2005, states that its mission is to “inspire every Catholic in America to live out the truths of our faith in public life.” The organization’s co-founder and former longtime president, Brian Burch, currently serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See under the Trump administration.
According to the Pew Research Center’s 2025 National Public Opinion Reference Survey, 57% of U.S. adults born between 1995 and 2007 identify with a religion, 32% pray daily, and 33% say religion is a “very important” part of their lives — the lowest percentage across all age cohorts.
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