This has been a long time coming. Anyone who attends church regularly can tell you that attendance is falling. Old reliables are dying and young people are not coming... this isn’t a uniquely catholic problem in the least. Just areas like Pittsburgh that had very high catholic densities are more noticeable than other areas of the country.
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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 .
The churches I tend to frequent are chuck full of young people and pregnant mothers.