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This article from the April 2013 issue of U.S. Catholic<\/em><\/a> tries to answer the question. Basically, listen to your mama: “You better shop around.” Some highlights:<\/p>\n

3. The parish I most frequently attend is the one closest to my home.
\nAgree – 39%
\nDisagree – 58%
\nOther – 3%<\/p>\n

4. As long as I can attend Mass there and receive the sacraments, any parish is fine with me.
\nAgree – 15%
\nDisagree – 78%
\nOther – 7% …<\/p>\n

8. The important factors for me in choosing a parish are:
\nQuality of the liturgy – 84% …<\/p>\n

A reason I decided against continuing to attend a certain parish was…
\nLiturgy often was more performance than worship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The answer won’t come as a surprise to readers of this blog, but you better gas up the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[357],"tags":[889,825,632],"class_list":["post-19056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demographics-and-sociology","tag-catholic-culture","tag-surveys-polls","tag-u-s-catholic"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat makes a parish worth sticking around? - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/09\/what-makes-a-parish-worth-sticking-around\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What makes a parish worth sticking around? 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