Roughly 2/3 of RCs don't go to church on a weekly basis:
Quote:The clergy sex abuse crisis that has battered the U.S. Roman Catholic Church for three years has had little impact on Mass attendance, according a study released Monday.In each of the 10...
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Quote:A recent study by the University of Notre Dame found that only one in four now attend. A light just went on! In heaven, NO ONE will attend! LINK TO GODS TROMBONEWhat Is Jesus Doing? (WIJD)
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Quote:The number of lapsed Catholics is harder to quantify. Like many Americans who view their faith as a cultural flourish, not an active commitment, they rarely go to church. Their Catholic identity...
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Quote:Researchers found a widespread sense of anger and frustration at what was happening to churches in the UK and Ireland. The 42-page report is an indictment of modern preaching and worship,...
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Quote:If one wishes to report on positive things happening in the Catholic Church in Australia today, there are plentiful examples. This journal has devoted much space in recent years to strong...
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Quote:The data closely matches data on Mass attendance collected by the Gallup Organization since the 1930s. The Gallup data shows Catholic Mass attendance has been in decline since a peak of 74...
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Quote:The Catholic Church has commissioned research to discover why longer-term, regular parishioners are no longer attending Mass.The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference commissioned the project,...
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That's quite amazing! If I get to Mass a few minutes late I can't find a seat. Imagine if that other 2/3 attended - I wouldn't be able to get in the door.
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All I have to do is look at my own family...lets take 30 members. Only 3 still go to Mass on weekly basis. About half all go to Mass on Easter, Christmas and most go when there is a wedding or...
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Quote:That's quite amazing! If I get to Mass a few minutes late I can't find a seat. Actually, no. You see, the RCC continues to reduce the number of weekly Masses available for attendance. The sharp...
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Quote:All I have to do is look at my own family...Me too. Parents (quit RCC, now agnostic) Sister (quit RCC, now a Missouri Synod Lutheran) 1st Brother (quit RCC with wife when the local priest...
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There are so many people at some church services, they have had to set up speakers in the parking lots.
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Quote: Soccer practice, ballet and karate are pushing God out of bounds.At least thats one of the reasons the Rev. Dan Derry thinks Californias population is up but church attendance is down.There is...
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Quote:That churches have started to weigh in on various political controversies is not surprising, but it is also one of the reasons that church attendance is so low. This...
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Quote:A national survey of U.S. Catholics reported that 76 percent of the respondents said they could be good Catholics without fulfilling the weekly Mass obligation.A majority also said that a person...
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Quote: One explanation for the fall-off in religious practice has been the secularisation of our society. Ireland is becoming more secular, in keeping with the rest of Western Europe, except that we...
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Quote:Fewer than one in five Catholics who live in the Boston Archdiocese regularly attend Mass at a parish, according to church statistics. The archdiocese estimated its Catholic population at about...
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Punctuality is a character trait that seems to be sorely missing with people of all generations today. People are perpetually running late. I have this policy of a fifteen minutes lead time when I go...
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The "Depression-driven" Catholics who grew up in the pre-Vatican II church, often in ethnic parishes, show the highest rate of Mass attendance, 60 percent, with each successive generation having a...
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The reality of who most Catholics are is the opposite of what lay Catholic apologists want to portray of what the average Catholic is.
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Considering the consequences of changing religious attitudes, this compelling account examines diminishing theological belief and denominational affiliation in Australia. This study argues that...
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