Weekly church attendance by American Catholics continues its decadeslong decline, a new Gallup report shows. About 39 percent of Catholics reported attending church in any given week, according to data collected between 2014 and 2017 and released Monday. And it’s a huge drop from 1955 when Gallup polling reported weekly Mass attendance at 75 percent. But Mass attendance declined rapidly through the 1970s and has continued to decrease at a slower pace since then. Gallup reports that Mass attendance stabilized briefly in the mid-2000s, before resuming a “downward trajectory” over the past decade.

Source: Huffington Post April 11, 2018 22:07 UTC