As a follow-up to Fr. Komonchak's stimulating post: the Washington Post details the startling collapse of Church-sanctioned marriages in the last thirty-five years. Summarized: the number of Catholic marriages has fallen by half since 1970, while the Catholic population has increased significantly. Here might be another example of the movement away from church and toward "religion."
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