Churches have become places that have stopped discipling and are now, often, just places to collect tithes and condemn behaviours.
There is very little behavior condemning at a typical Catholic Mass. Also, not too much push for bigger donations.
I think children's activities (not just sports) coupled with a very real sense of being stretched too thin is the reason many families don't attend every week. Even if your child is in sports you can generally make the Vigil or the 7 am Mass, but when Church is seen as just one more thing, those Masses are too much trouble. We Catholics need to turn the focus back to the Eucharist.
>>Churches have become places that have stopped discipling and are now, often, just places to collect tithes and condemn behaviours.
Many of them don’t even condemn behaviors anymore.
But some churches do disciple. If you aren’t looking for one, then everything else is just an excuse. In fact, all the reasons in this article and the reasons in replies are just excuses. If a person loves Jesus and loves God with all their heart, then nothing will keep them from worship. If they don’t, anything will keep them away.
Most churches are just club houses, Most no longer have a purpose except to self perpetuate.