I was in RCIA over 20 years ago and the drop rate was significant. Many would come to inquire, stay for couple of months and would not come back. I remember several “seeker” types, who had tried everything else, from Baha’i to Presbyterianism that soon were on their way again. One guy was struggling with a drug addiction and was not interested in anything but his condition. Some had a serious problem with one doctrine or another and seemed to expect that someone would tell them that the Church did not really mean it. So the weaker types have many chances to drop off.
WELL PUT.
They seem to be choosing God the way they would choose a car, a shirt or an entree at a restaurant.
It's pretty sad, isn't it? They were probably brought up by their mother and father was AWOL, just absent.
There are a million excuses, aren't there? I would NOT want to be in their shoes. I am SO GLAD that I had a father who insisted on Mass for his two daughters. We never missed.
When I went away to college (across the bay) I would still come home on the weekends...and go to Mass. It was inculcated into me at a young enough age to "take." God bless him. I miss him still very, very much.
Not all, but yeah, I know the type. Not a good start on the road to Catholicism.