Volume > Issue > Note List > 'God Forgives'

‘God Forgives’

According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a news report written by Jay Lindsay (April 27), Sunday Catholic Mass attendance before Vatican II approached 70 percent, so says Jay Dolan, a Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.

According to Church statistics, in the Boston Archdiocese it is now only 17.3 percent; in the Chicago Archdiocese it is 21.5 percent; in the Newark Archdiocese it is 17.1 percent.

The Post-Intelligencer quotes Mark Gray of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University as saying: “The percentages are well below telephone poll numbers that put weekly Mass attendance at 33 percent. But that number is probably inflated because people tend to exaggerate things such as church attendance when questioned for polls.”

Enjoyed reading this?

READ MORE! REGISTER TODAY

SUBSCRIBE

You May Also Enjoy

The News You May Have Missed

Girls Will Be Boys... Neither Girls Nor Boys... Nothing Covered Up... A Mickey Mouse Dispute... Fleecing the Trusting Lambs... Goodbye, Tweetheart... Straining Credibility... Islamic Idol... Bogarting the Grid... September Is Special... and more

The Catholic Hiroshima

Dissent affects spiritual life in a way that is analogous to what happens to biological life in the aftermath of an atomic bomb.

Letter to the Editor: April 2013

The Great Amphibium... To Roast or Not to Roast?... Wild & Unjust Twists... What Do We Owe the Poor?... Why Should We Be Shocked?... Studying Philosophy... A Brighter Future for the Dark Continent... A Right & Just Man