Mass Exodus
Mass Exodus Of those raised Catholic, just 13% still attend Mass weekly, and 37% say they have 'no religion'. Or are wider social, cultural, and moral forces primarily to blame?In 1962, Pope John…
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Mass Exodus
Of those raised Catholic, just 13% still attend Mass weekly, and 37% say they have 'no religion'. Or are wider social, cultural, and moral forces primarily to blame?In 1962, Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council with the prophecy that 'a new day is dawning on the Church, bathing her in radiant splendour'. But is this all the fault of Vatican II, and its runaway reforms?
The most significant of these centred on refashioning the Church's liturgy--'the source and summit of the Christian life'--in order to make 'it pastorally efficacious to the fullest degree'.Over fifty years on, however, the statistics speak for themselves. Desiring 'to impart an ever increasing vigour to the Christian life of the faithful', the Council Fathers devoted particular attention to the laity, and set in motion a series of sweeping reforms. In America, only 15% of cradle