What religion was Martin Scorsese raised in?

Martin Scorsese was raised in the Catholic faith. He grew up in New York City's Little Italy, a predominantly Italian-American and Catholic neighborhood, with parents whose families came from Sicily.

Religion became an important influence on Scorsese's life and filmmaking. As a teenager, he briefly considered becoming a priest and attended a preparatory seminary, but left after his first year. He later studied English at New York University and turned toward filmmaking.

Scorsese has sometimes described himself as a “lapsed Catholic,” but that does not change the answer about how he was raised. In later life, he also said he felt comfortable identifying with Catholicism again. His films frequently explore Catholic ideas such as guilt, sin, redemption, faith, and moral conflict. The question asks about his upbringing, not his changing adult religious identity.