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Jan 22, 2023 · Adam Gabbatt. Sun 22 Jan 2023 04.00 EST. C hurches are closing at rapid numbers in the US, researchers say, as congregations dwindle across the country and a younger generation of Americans abandon...
Apr 18, 2011 · The principal reasons given by people who leave the church to become Protestant are that their “spiritual needs were not being met” in the Catholic church (71 percent) and they “found a...
Or are people leaving the Catholic Church because they perceive that it has already changed its teachings? It has been said by some that “Catholic” means “here comes everybody” because everyone can be a member—all races and people of all political viewpoints. The teachings of the Church do not fit into one political category or another.
6 days ago · Indeed, P.R.R.I. found that 26 percent of Americans now identify as religiously unaffiliated, a 10-point increase since 2016; and its data suggest that more than one-fifth of people who left their ...
6 days ago · A Pew survey from 2009 offered a variety of reasons why people left the Catholic Church. Many cited the church's teachings on birth control and other issues, made possible by a severe lack of ...
A two-year national study explores why young adults are leaving the Catholic Church. Saint Mary's Press released the study, Going, Going, Gone: The Dynamics of Disaffiliation in Young Catholics, at a national symposium Jan. 16–18, 2018.
May 10, 2022 · May 10, 2022. By. Thomas Reese. (RNS) — There are numerous signs that the Catholic Church is failing in Western countries. There are few vocations, church attendance is down and young...
