Category: Demographics and Sociology
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As younger Catholics drift away, the church considers what works
From the Boston Globe: “As Younger Catholics Drift Away, the Church Considers What Works.” Some sobering data here. In 1990, one-third of U.S. children were Catholic. Now it’s 20%. 31.2% of U.S. citizens’ childhood affiliation is Catholic, but 20.9% have it as their current affiliation. The numbers for white mainline Protestants are 18% and 13.5%, a…
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Man, I’m Tired of Inclusive Language
Inclusive language appears to be dead, and those of us who continue to demand it appear obsolete and out-of-touch.
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Good taste, bad taste, no taste: Liturgical Art and Architecture in a time of cultural exhaustion.
Rather than listen to specialists, we have mob-opinion and crowdsourced culture.
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10 Key Findings about Religion in Western Europe
Here are “10 key findings about religion in Western Europe” from Pew Research Center. No. 5 is disturbing. No. 10 is interesting. Secularization is widespread in Western Europe, but most people in the region still identify as Christian. Even though most people identify as Christian in the region, few regularly attend church. Christians in Western…
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Millennials and the Parish Festival
Is the parish festival a “brick and mortar” gold fish coin toss of the past?
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The Awareness Heuristic: School Shootings and Flying Monstrances
Flying monstrances are a threat to the faith. But so is bad preaching, amateurish music, poor proclamation of the scriptures, bored celebrants, inattention to symbols, childish catechesis, and so forth.
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Compelling Data about Religious Affiliation & Practice among Young Europeans
The rates of 16-to-29-year-olds religiously unaffiliated in England and France are 70% and 64%.
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Does Religion Decline When It Becomes Liberal?
In short: it’s complicated.
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Spiritual, Religious, Media, and Music
“The combination of passivity, consuming, quality, and place has combined to help the phenomenon of the “destination church” emerge.”