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De-Evangelization?
A Catholic pastor in Lower Bucks County, recently told those at a weekday Mass that only 17% of his parish goes to Sunday Mass. And some other parishes are reportedly worse! The data comes from annual tallies by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. As per CatholicPhilly (5/25/22),
The "October Count" is a head count of all people attending Mass each week.... The census for 2021 showed 129,990 people....That figure represents a significant drop in attendance from previous years, as does the percentage of registered Catholics attending Mass, 12.5%. That is about half the percentage it was in 2008, at 24%. Over the past 20 years, the October Count has declined precipitously, from 378,794 Mass attendees in 2001 — down 66%.
While attendance in the aforementioned parish is apparently not as poor as some other parishes, we should NOT put a happy face on any evidence of "de-evangelization."
There appears to be hierarchial and clerical resistance to acknowledging what seems clear to so many of us. Our corporate failure to defend the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of marriage/family has sent a terrible message to young people.
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About the Author
Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two married adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.
On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, geography, history, Italian food, Saturday Night Fever, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.
