[NYer]

First, cultural Catholicism in America is dying. People aren’t Catholic now because they’re Irish or Italian or Polish. They’re Catholic because they believe the Catholic faith. While cultural Catholicism continues to die out committed Catholicism will continue to rise. Cultural catholicism doesn’t produce vocations. Committed Catholicism does.

Good observation! Ethnic parishes are a thing of the past. The problem still plagues many of the Eastern Catholic parishes that try to maintain their ethnic heritage. Unless they adapt, their doors will also close.

Benedict XVI: The days of culturally transmitted Catholicism, or what some might call Catholicism by osmosis, are over and done with.

[Biggirl]

Plus also too is the cultural Catholicism that is based on because of one’s parent’s or grandparent’s side of the family, besides ethnic in the USA is dying too.

It will be because of a PERSONAL decision to follow the Lord.