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This is correct. Catholics pretty much gave up on talking about the faith to anyone, whether to the general public or even their own children during the 1960s.
by Tabular-Iceberg 3y ago
This is correct. Catholics pretty much gave up on talking about the faith to anyone, whether to the general public or even their own children during the 1960s.
And it’s not only administrivia, for example only half of US Catholics have heard about transubstantiation and only a third believe in it. [1]
1. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/08/05/transubstantiation-eucharist-u-s-catholics/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/08/05/transubst...
- philsnow 3y ago> only half of US Catholics have heard about transubstantiation and only a third believe in it. The USCCB is trying to work on this, we're almost 2 years into a 3-year Eucharistic "revival" (that word has weird connotations for me, but it's the word they used), https://www.eucharisticrevival.org/ https://www.eucharisticrevival.org/
- panopticon 3y ago> only half of US Catholics have heard about transubstantiation and only a third believe in it That's a startling figure, but I've been out of the church for a while. I recall that being taught during first communion and confirmation.