Cardinal Dolan on Reaching Out to Those who Have Left the Church

“Do you agree that we get way too many statistics? Seems as if every time I turn around, I’m looking at ‘the results of a new survey.’ What’s worse, the findings often seem to contradict themselves!

“One of these statistics does haunt me, though: recently scholarly research shows that, over the last decade or so, about 10 percent of our Catholic people have left the Church.”

In a recent commentary, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, reflected on why people leave the Church.

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Catholic New York: Cardinal Dolan’s Column: Evangelizing Amid Sobering Statistics (12 JUL 12)