[NYer]

Forgive my skepticism, but I’ve always found the whole family leaving the Church en masse thing a little suspect.

I can understand how this would happen, especially when the children are young. Let's be honest. In today's society, it is so much more tantalizing to leave the Catholic Church for a denomination that does not frown on artificial birth control or the decision not to reproduce. And like the Protestants, we also have families that come into the Church, like this one.

Pastor and Flock Convert to Catholicism

[wagglebee]

I wasn’t referring so much to a “nuclear family” of a father, mother and young children. It was this idea of a large family of adult brothers, sisters, spouses, etc. doing it all at once, especially within throughout a neighborhood. If what Dr. E. mentioned is true, the local priest was obviously doing something very wrong.

[OLD REGGIE]

In today's society, it is so much more tantalizing to leave the Catholic Church for a denomination that does not frown on artificial birth control or the decision not to reproduce.

Obviously Catholics do not practice artificial birth control or make a decision not to reproduce.

These statistics are (not) born out by the Pew Report.

The Pew Forum

Words are one thing. Action is another.