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Mass Exodus - Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II (Paperback)
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Mass Exodus - Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II (Paperback)
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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? 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. 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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