That is to be expected. 50% of all people formally affiliated with a Church in the US are Catholics. Therefore, its to be expected that most "ex-whatevers" are going to be "ex-Catholic" simply because of the sheer numbers of Catholics in the US.
Absent a strong ethnic tie among those people and taking into consideration the top down management style traditional in the Latin Church, how do you create a sense of community in a group like that?
In much of the country, the parish is territorial based and relatively compact. These thousands in the Catholic parish generally will be a plurality or majority of the neighborhood. The sense of community comes from there if you bother to look for it by speaking to your neighbors. If you live a life of isolation, of course you are not going to find community either in Church or in your neighborhood.
"That is to be expected. 50% of all people formally affiliated with a Church in the US are Catholics. Therefore, its to be expected that most "ex-whatevers" are going to be "ex-Catholic" simply because of the sheer numbers of Catholics in the US"
Never thought of that! On the other hand, having the whole paternal side of my family as good and faithful Irish Catholics, I find it astonishing that if one were to leave the Roman Church one would end up with the fundies. Something is very wrong.
Wow, I never heard that. Can you post a link or let me know where you learned this?