By ANGELINNA VERAS

Jada Cuveras is a teen attending the Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School, an all-girls Catholic school in Bedford Park, who doesn’t believe that God truly loves us all. “I think He has favorites and chooses who to care for and love,” Jada said when asked about her faith, which she admits is at an all-time low.

It seems that attending a Catholic school has not helped her faith at all. “I’m grateful, but I also think He has favorites like the people who are wealthy and are in good health,” Jada said.

And in some cases, the loss of faith, or the ability to question it, has become a key moment of soul searching for young people who’ve always been taught a higher power was among them. But experiences, and the world around them, often make them stop and think.

Patrick Hornbeck II, a professor of theology from Fordham University, argued a catholic God does not have favorites. “When there are two people in a hospital tragically suffering from a fatal illness and one spontaneously recovers while the other does not, does that mean that God is more on the side of the one who is cured?” asked Hornbeck. “Many theologians today would answer no: that would contradict what most Christians, Jews, and Muslims believe about God’s love for all God’s creation.”

For now, the trend across the country has seen a shift in young people leaving their childhood faith behind. A Pew Research study in 2011 found two-thirds of unaffiliated Catholics “left their childhood faith because they stopped believing in its teachings.”

Rachael Angeles is another non-believer of God. She said she doesn’t continue to believe in God because “I wasn’t there to see who He was. There is no such thing as power that’s like magic.” Rachael also feels that the bible is just “another book.”

Rachael was part of the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults, a process that converts adults to Catholicism. She backed out after realizing her beliefs were not genuine. Rachael is deciding to leave the Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School because of her doubts.