Because you are special, I took time to dig back through the many Catholic posts to locate the original thread that the 12% figure comes from.
[By the way, it was posted by NYer]
First, here is the exact quote...
"That should come as no surprise to any Catholic who is attentive to the current situation of the Church in North America. What the study did not point out, but we know from experience to be the case, is that only approximately 12% of those 51 million Catholics attend mass regularly on Sundays. The Catholic Church in America is, and has been for decades now, constituted by practicing Catholics, kind-of-practicing Catholics, and non-practicing Catholics—a situation in many ways not unlike previous centuries, yet which emerges from new and complex causes, and has resulted in a Church of profound internal tensions."
Here is the linky for you to savor...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3291513/posts
I will let you quibble with other Catholics as to what percent of Catholics actually attend mass and what percent do not...
Best
#15.
45% of Catholics attend a primary worship service on any given Sunday. >>
that’s about 30 million Catholics attending mass on Sunday, I’ll take it...believe me, it’s more than all the other Christian attendance combined.