Maybe we should do a study on how many people who have no religion but take up surveys on people who do. Biased? Who, non-believers?
Yesterday I attended weekday Mass which is NOT a requirement for the Catholic Church. The pews in the large church were almost entirely filled. And they were not all filled by old codgers, but many people who are working take their lunch hour at noon in order to attend Mass. What empty pews?
From the article: Since more people unilaterally abandon Catholicism than join it without baptism ...
How do you join without baptism? Or is that a backhanded reference to the catechumenate?
Estimating the size of other Christian groups isn’t quite as challenging because self-identification is all that matters for many of them.
Challenging or not, the author notes that it takes very little effort to self-identify as Catholic but fails to state the same is true for a vast number of nonCatholics. While correctly noting that millions of self-identified Catholics are unknown to their local priests, he fails to acknowledge the millions who self-identify with a nonCatholic denomination who are similarly unknown to their local clergy or houses of worship. Poor attendance or no attendance aren't phenomena isolated to Catholicism.
Gee, you'd almost think that an article that opens by stating that the dissident Biden represents tens of millions of [U.S.] Catholics had an agenda or something.
Yesterday I attended weekday Mass which is NOT a requirement for the Catholic Church. The pews in the large church were almost entirely filled. And they were not all filled by old codgers, but many people who are working take their lunch hour at noon in order to attend Mass. What empty pews?Yeaaaaa for daily Mass... ♥ :)
One Catholic, Two Catholics, Three Catholics ...
Four, now non-Catholics show you the door. LOL!
Slate is nonsense.
We have over 100 people at weekday Mass on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Other days — more like 60-70
Still not a bad count!