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Jan 24, 2024 · About 40 million Americans have left churches and other religious institutions in the last 25 years. For some, the decision is rooted in deep pain. But for the majority, their reasons for leaving ...
Dec 9, 2021 · According to The Pew Forums, 79% of former Catholics leave the church before the age of 23. According to PRRI, 90% of the nones, those who just have no religion whatsoever, left before the age of 29. Here’s where it gets shocking for me. Almost two thirds of them, almost two thirds of them leave before the age of 18.
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Dec 5, 2018 · Have fun in Hell." I was also accused of leaving the church to sell newspapers, leaving the church to advance my career, and leaving Christ lonely on the cross. At a monastery in Massachusetts ...
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Almost half of Catholics who are now unaffiliated (48%) left Catholicism before reaching age 18, as did one-third who are now Protestant. Among both groups, an additional three-in-ten left the Catholic Church as young adults between ages 18 and 23. Only one-fifth who are now unaffiliated (21%) and one-third who are now Protestant (34%) departed aft...
When asked to say whether or not each of a number of specific items was a reason for leaving Catholicism, most former Catholics say they gradually drifted away from Catholicism. Nearly three-quarters of former Catholics who are now unaffiliated (71%) say this, as do more than half of those who have left Catholicism for Protestantism (54%). Majoriti...
In addition to asking converts why they left their childhood religion, the survey also inquired as to why converts became part of their current religion. When asked why they joined their Protestant denomination, former Catholics most commonly cite enjoying the religious services and the style of worship of their new faith, with fully eight-in-ten (...
Feb 4, 2022 · The fact is, while we call them “lapsed” or frame them as having lost their home, many former Catholics have left the church precisely because church leaders refused to offer real care to them ...
Dec 12, 2018 · A 2018 study on young adults leaving the Catholic Church found people stopped identifying as Catholics at a median age of 13, long before they ceased attending a parish. The report adds to the ...
A two-year national study explores why young adults are leaving the Catholic Church. Saint Mary’s Press released results of the study, Going, Going, Gone: The Dynamics of Disaffiliation in Young Catholics, at a national symposium near Baltimore Jan. 16–18, 2018. The qualitative study shares the voices of young people as they describe their ...
