The problem is hardly unknown....even among catholic marketers.
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2012/apr...-why-pews/
2009? Perhaps molesting children is coming home to roost?
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2012/apr...-why-pews/
Quote:The numbers are hard to avoid. A 2009 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that 1 in 10 Catholic adults in the United States has left the church, with four exiting for every one that converts into the church. Meanwhile, weekly Mass attendance has fallen from 75 percent or higher in the 1950s to about 25 percent today.
2009? Perhaps molesting children is coming home to roost?