[Calpernia]

America lost a lot of religion when communities were broken up.

[Godzilla]

Imagine how much greater the decline would have been without JP2!

[Clemenza]

America lost a lot of religion when communities were broken up.

Thats because the U.S. became more economically dispersed from the industrial NE and Midwest to the South and the West. Kinda difficult to have "community" when you live in the land of Office Parks and Applebees.

On the other hand, the "Megachurches" are doing very well. I think the RCs main problem is that it is run by incompetants (the late PJPII being an exception) and hasn't been "on message" consistently since the Second Vatican Council.

[ishabibble]

And malls are open on Sundays. And when families spent Sundays as a family, first in church and then at home.
That's because Sundays used to be a day of rest. Now, it is just another day on the "hamster wheel" of consumerism.

[ninenot]

At least the author puts his finger on the genesis of the Western Church's problem: affluence (comfort...)

What need have we of God and Heaven when we can have it here?