National Catholic Reporter, Jan 11 2018
ASR Past-President Michelle Dillon reports on the changing levels of religious commitment among American Catholic women, based on the April, 2017, sixth iteration of the Catholics in Transition survey. Among the findings is a difference from the 25-year decline in commitment that the team found from its 2011 survey:
“The overall story is one of stability, and even slightly increased commitment, rather than further decline. Catholic women’s weekly Mass attendance has stabilized. In 2011, continuing a pattern of sharp decline from the late 1980s, 31 percent of women went to Mass weekly, and a similar proportion reported weekly Mass in 2017 (see Figure 1). Today, women are just slightly more likely than men to go to Mass at least weekly. On two other indicators of commitment, women show more of an uptick since 2011.”
Read the whole article at https://www.ncronline.org/news/survey-us-catholics-shows-refreshed-enthusiasm-among-women