Confirmed: Catholic Church attendance down

A new Gallup poll confirms what most of us already knew: Catholic Church attendance is going in the same direction as everybody else’s attendance — down.

I don’t subscribe to Gallup reports; I’m quoting Bill Donohue’s précis of the report.

We knew that younger Catholics were going to church in fewer numbers than in the past, but what is new about this Gallup poll is the decline among older Catholics. Overall, only 39 percent of Catholics say they attend church weekly, and among those aged 60 and over the figure is 49 percent. This means that “for the first time, a majority of Catholics in no generational group attend weekly.”

Donohue speculates about the causes of the trend — school prayer jurisprudence, higher education, moral relativism, et cetera — but never places blame where it obviously belongs: The Christian narrative is not true; it has no more dignity than a Mother Goose tale, and less ethical merit. And who wants to be associated with intolerable boors like himself?

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