The attendance may be waning for the Catholics but basic Christian churches are thriving . The falling away from the bible and what it says is a big factor along with the multiple pedophile priests that were just shuffled around may have been a factor OR maybe it was the Bishop who just a few days ago blurted out that we (the Catholic church) should tolerate the gay lifestyle ? The Vatican is filthy with their money dealings and a lot of people just don’t want to be preached to by a corrupted sinful lot . I am just a sinner yearning to be a humble servant of God and I attend a HUGE Christian nondenominational church...this place can seat thousands for services and the church has been growing leaps and bounds . Church of the King in Louisiana .
Catholics read from the Bible EVERY DAY at Mass. Please educate yourself.
Are you aware that non-Catholic clergy are higher on the abuse scale than Catholic priests?
And how about the teachers, coaches, protestant ministers that DON’T get reported?
I am sorry, but if you think church attendance is up, as a whole in the US you are in denial. Every study done on the subject is very clear, and attendance has been dropping for decades across the board. Belief that this is limited to Catholic Churches is pure ignorance.
Within 5 a miles radius of my house there have been dozens of church closings, and the reason for all are declining attendance and financial inability to operate due to it. Lutheran, Methodist, Episcapalian, Presbyterian, etc etc. I can walk into nearly any church around me on any Sunday morning and find a building built 50-100 years ago to house several hundred to a thousand worshippers that would have been filled when built to have no more than a few dozen to a few score attending now, and the majority of those who are attending are over 60.
Trying to blame this on specific events in Catholicism and to deny the larger issue is frankly being ignorant.
The largest denomination in the US is the Roman Catholic Church by numbers, and the second largest of it were one would be non practicing Roman Catholics, by the numbers. Like it or not, people not going to church any longer is a universal problem in the US, to try to claim it’s purely one denomination and it’s issues is simply ignorance.
Because, as everyone knows, the clergy at "basic Christian churches" are all perfect and without sin, right?
Guess again ...