JMJ: Brother Paul Adrien, the Catholic influencer in contact with youth

In Portugal, the World Youth Days are in full swing before the last day of this gathering of young Catholics from all over the world. Many members of the clergy also made the trip and among them, a star of social networks, brother Paul Adrien. He is the most followed Catholic influencer in France with 200,000 subscribers on YouTube alone. This 42-year-old monk has even hired a team of communicators and videographers.

“Religion is a way of life”

Brother Paul Adrien spends nearly 50 hours a week on social networks. And for good reason, for four years, he has become a Catholic influencer. “Religion is a way of life. It’s not just faith. One of the videos that did well was the spirituality of the bowl of rice, which was completely crazy. There, for example, I don’t am not happy because I missed the Barbie movie”, he explains at the microphone of Europe 1.

With the codes of Generation Z, he exchanges with young people like Orianne, who watches his content every day. “There are several live that I watch and I see the questions. I feel that they are not necessarily Christian people, but they are open to dialogue. So I find it great, through a telephone, to be able to ask the questions It’s good that the priests got on it, “she rejoices. This student would still like there to be more of them.

For Nicolas Guillou, parish priest in Rennes and whose parish is on the networks, this is a very recent movement. “I met a young person who met the parish through a social network and then the parish’s WhatsApp. Now this young person is preparing for a baptism”, underlines the priest. Among the representatives of the Catholic Church, they would be a dozen to be on social networks in France. For its part, the Vatican says it is concerned about the polemical and superficial communication of certain priests.