Engaging Catholics to further deepen the faith
About one third of Catholics attend Mass every weekend. Photo: VITA Images
Audrey Lee
In the United States, for every person joining the Catholic Church, six persons are actually leaving.
This is the startling reality of the state of the Catholic faith in the US and it was revealed at a recent annual spring meeting in June involving the Bishops there.
This and other sobering statistics were shared by Bishop Robert Barron, Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles and Chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).