On Bringing the "Nones" Back to Church

"As the U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore this [past] week . . . [one] crisis loomed large with no easy solutions - how to evangelize the 'nones,' or people with no religious affiliation.

"Bishop Robert Barron, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles and chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, delivered a presentation on Tuesday morning at the annual spring meeting of the U.S. bishops on 'this massive attrition of our own people, particularly the young' from the Church. He exhorted fellow bishops 'to look at this issue of who are the unaffiliated, why are they leaving, and how do we get them back.'

"He presented some sobering statistics: for every one person joining the Church today, 6.45 are leaving. Almost eight in ten leave by the age of 23, and the median age for leaving the Church is just 13 years old."

A recent Catholic News Agency article reported on some of the issues related to (re-)evangelizing people who are unaffiliated.

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Catholic News Agency: What's going to bring the 'nones' back to the Church? (14 JUN 19)