What would happen if clergy and parish leaders personally reached out to Catholics who have stopped attending Mass to invite them to come back, telling them they are missed and wanted in the parish community? This is the question and challenge the
Publisher Scott P. Richert writes: “The reality is that many of those who have vanished from our pews over the past year had been only physically present for some years before that. As social pressure from friends and co-workers and family began
The absence of a personal relationship with God causes students to fall away even before arriving on campus
Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, Landings is a Paulist program that meets returning Catholics with love and guides them back into the pews.
The rise of the “nones” continues. According to an analysis of the Global Social Survey, released in March, the number of Americans now identifying as having “no religion” is equivalent to those who identify as Catholic or evangelical (approximately 23% for each
They used to say that the Catholic Church is like a family — hard to ignore and even harder to leave. Well, that was then. An abundance of social analyses now shows that the number of Americans who were reared as Catholics,
Young Catholics are leaving the Faith. Multiple national surveys indicate that only about two-thirds or fewer millennials (those born in 1982 or later) who were raised Catholic remain Catholic as adults. The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) recently conducted
The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University estimates that there are currently approximately 32 million adults in the United States who were raised Catholic but have ceased to identify themselves as a member of the Church. A