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More than thirty million Americans, over 10% of the U.S. population, consider themselves former Catholics. Young adults are alarmingly abandoning the Church, over 70% of American Catholics do not attend Sunday Mass, and only 17% attend every Sunday.
In the United States, the number of Catholic weddings has tragically decreased in the past twenty years we have closed over three thousand parishes and a Catholic school every four days, and many parishes and dioceses are in serious financial trouble.
Our planning at the national and diocesan levels focuses on the challenge of a shrinking Church, like in Europe. England is the bright light in Western Europe — Catholicism is the dominant religion again since the Reformation.
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