The demise of religious traditions is about the loss of the young, not the death of the old. The present is the future. Young adults-those twenty through thirty-nine years of age-now constitute nearly 40 percent of America’s 60 million Catholics. They are a large segment of the 20 million or so Catholics who appear disconnected from their tradition, that is, who do not (...)
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A Faith Loosely Held
The institutional allegiance of young Catholics
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