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The
Proof is in the Pudding
Post-Vatican II Statistics Prove It!
In the USA:
Active Priests:
1965 - 58,000
2002 - 45,000
Ordinations:
1965 - 1,575
2002 - 450
Priestless Parishes:
1965 - 549 (about 1%)
2002 - 2,928 (about 15%)
Seminarians:
1965 - 49,000
2002 - 4,700
Sisters:
1965 - 180,000
2002 - 75,000
Brothers:
1965 - 12,000
2002 - 5,700
Jesuits:
1965 - 5,277
2002 - 3,172
Franciscans:
1965 - 2,534
2002 - 1,492
Christian Brothers:
1965 - 2,434
2002 - 959
Redemptorists:
1965 - 1,148
2002 - 349
Catholic High Schools:
1965 - 1,566
2002 - 786
Catholic High School Students:
1965 - 700,000
2002 - 386,000
Parochial Grade Schools:
1965 - 10,504
2002 - 6,623
Parochial Grade School Students:
1965 - 4.5 million
2002 - 1.9 million
Infant Baptisms:
1965 - 1.3 million
2002 - 1 million
Adult Baptisms (conversions):
1965 - 126,000
2002 - 80,000
Catholic Marriages:
1965 - 352,000
2002 - 256,000
Annulments:
1965 - 338
2002 - 50,000
Regular Mass Attendance - study #1:
1958 - 74% of Catholics (Gallup Pole)
1994 - 26.6% (Notre Dame study)
Regular Mass Attendance - Fordham University study:
1965 - 65% of Catholics
2000 - 25%
Misc. (source, National Catholic Reporter)
77% believe Catholics don't have to attend Mass on Sunday
65% believe Catholics can divorce and remarry
53% believe Catholics can have an abortion
10% accept the Church's teaching on birth control (source, Notre Dame poll)
70% believe the Eucharist is a "symbolic reminder" of Our Lord (New York Times poll)
(Source: Liturgical Time Bombs in Vatican II, by Michael Davies, TAN Books, copyright 2003)
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