It seems my first one about Catholicism attendance was removed because mentioning a recently assassinated person is verboten
Now the NY Times doubles up and looks at Orthodox Churches and attendance
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Interesting…I hope I can find a way to make $$$ off of this trend.
Church participation increases during times of distress and economic hardship
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Good informative post. Catholic numbers are on the rise for the first time ,in a long time .The pendulum is swinging the
other way.
Tradition!
“Everyone knows who he is, and what God expects him to do”
The trend in the decline of Catholic nuns in the U.S. is alarming. In 50 years, the Catholic nun population in the U.S. has dropped 78%. The percentage of nuns in the U.S. under age 30 is less than 1%.
We belong to a very large Catholic church. We’ve had several priests but only 1 nun. There doesn’t seem to be much effort to promote the vocation
Sorry to say but there is norhing essential about having a large nun population in America
I think a lot of this trend is a reaction against the hyper-individualism that’s shaped American evangelicalism for so long. It’s the same mindset that gave us “consumer Christianity,” where people treat church like a product to shop for instead of a community to belong to. There’s something deeply grounding about stepping into a tradition where you don’t have to build everything from scratch, where you can actually lean on the wisdom of the people who came before you. Every Christian is still accountable before God for their own life, but it all becomes far more joyful when we’re bearing one another’s burdens instead of acting like spiritual free agents.
Probably because more women have been accepted into the professional workplace
Religion has always attempted to limit what women can and can’t do, how they should and shouldn’t behave, etc…
America prefers its young women on OnlyFans
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When I was at school I had a nun as a teacher for all grades until high school. They were the best! My kids didn’t get a single nun teacher.
Frassati Catholic still has a number of Dominican sisters on the faculty.
https://frassaticatholic.org/faculty-and-staff-1
Strangely, I see hardly any at St. Agnes, even though it is supposedly a “Dominican” girls school.
Nearly all lay people.
I wonder if the effect of having an American Pope is at play here for the
Catholics.
Of course white protestants are even higher in the religion influence question.
But Jewish leads even more at 23% change.
CoachV,
Actually, in the case of the Russian Orthodox Church, they appear to be gaining a certain type of convert a) for all the wrong reasons, and that b) they probably would rather not be getting.
See here.
Pro-Putinism on the far right has led to this.
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NPR? Mmmm-kay
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Good read; thanks for posting that.
Shocking how peoples and groups morph
into these values systems.
Interesting. Best of all, I could tell them apart from the laywomen because they wear their habit. I mention this crucial fact because the Dominicans at Almeda are circling the drain. A habit is a visible sign of commitment.
These guys are much more credible.
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