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I don't think there is an arbitron rating service going on, but I have seen repots that as few as 20% of congregants regularly go to confession. The Sacrament of Penance (the formal name for confession) is the most common Sacrament (Sacraments are those things God gave us to help us accept His Grace) in the Catholic culture, followed closely by the Holy Eucharist (the Communnion whereby the Body and Blood of Our Lord is shared as He instructed us). To accept the Body and Blood of Christ without confessing and being forgiven mortal sin is blasphemy and itself a mortal sin. When most people who take Communnion do not preceed that by a valid Confession, it calls into question the entire structure of how the Faith is being taught and learned.