It is no secret that a great many baptised Catholics are, in the parlance of one of our bishops, â??restingâ?.
Forty-eight per cent never attend Mass; one in three claims to have â??no religionâ?. A momentâ??s reflection, however, confirms that it cannot ever have been thus. The Catholic birthrate would need to be vastly above average (it isnâ??t) to break even, let alone grow, in the face of such attrition. So when, exactly, did the haemorrhage begin? And why?
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