‘God Forgives’
According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a news report written by Jay Lindsay (April 27), Sunday Catholic Mass attendance before Vatican II approached 70 percent, so says Jay Dolan, a Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
According to Church statistics, in the Boston Archdiocese it is now only 17.3 percent; in the Chicago Archdiocese it is 21.5 percent; in the Newark Archdiocese it is 17.1 percent.
The Post-Intelligencer quotes Mark Gray of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University as saying: “The percentages are well below telephone poll numbers that put weekly Mass attendance at 33 percent. But that number is probably inflated because people tend to exaggerate things such as church attendance when questioned for polls.”
You May Also Enjoy
"Account of the Martyrs in the Provinces of La Florida" details the lives of pioneer Franciscan priests who were dedicated to spreading God's Word.
Something Else Going On In the Rue De Bac... Look East... Lippman, Not Mencken... Barbara Ward, the Dreamer... Badmouthing Public Schools... Libeling Public Schools... Who's Teaching the Teachers?... Needing Constantine Again?...
Better a Good Protestant Than a Mediocre Catholic... Lasch: Beyond the Trees & Above the Forest... Mary in Blue... Mary: Not a "Prairie Woman" Now... Whistling in the Dark...