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Mass Exodus - Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II (Hardcover)
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Mass Exodus - Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II (Hardcover)
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In 1962, Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council with the
prophecy that 'a new day is dawning on the Church, bathing her in
radiant splendour'. Desiring 'to impart an ever increasing vigour
to the Christian life of the faithful', the Council Fathers devoted
particular attention to the laity, and set in motion a series of
sweeping reforms. The most significant of these centred on
refashioning the Church's liturgy-'the source and summit of the
Christian life'-in order to make 'it pastorally efficacious to the
fullest degree'. Over fifty years on, however, the statistics speak
for themselves. In America, only 15% of cradle Catholics say that
they attend Mass on a weekly basis; meanwhile, 35% no longer even
tick the 'Catholic box' on surveys. In Britain, the signs are direr
still. Of those raised Catholic, just 13% still attend Mass weekly,
and 37% say they have 'no religion'. But is this all the fault of
Vatican II, and its runaway reforms? Or are wider social, cultural,
and moral forces primarily to blame? Catholicism is not the only
Christian group to have suffered serious declines since the 1960s.
If anything Catholics exhibit higher church attendance, and better
retention, than most Protestant churches do. If Vatican II is not
the cause of Catholicism's crisis, might it instead be the secret
to its comparative success? Mass Exodus is the first serious
historical and sociological study of Catholic lapsation and
disaffiliation. Drawing on a wide range of theological, historical,
and sociological sources, Stephen Bullivant offers a comparative
study of secularization across two famously contrasting religious
cultures: Britain and the USA.
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