Indeed. I had a similar experience, but for me it was the opposite. Separation from parental influence brought me into contact with Christ and his church.
Thanks for posting this mark!
I had, I guess (from the limited data) a similar path to the author’s. I was brought up as a Protestant, became a non-Christian as an adolescent (my “existentialist period”), and then became a Catholic as an adult. I began attending the Catholic Church when I was 20, and was Confirmed when I was 26.
It would be interesting to know what, exactly, led him this way.