A Proposal for Saving the Church in America, by Walker Larson

By Walker Larson, Crisis Magazine, March 12, 2025

Walker Larson holds a BA in writing and an MA in English Literature & Language. His writing has appeared at Catholic Match, OnePeterFive, Intellectual Takeout, and The Mises Institute Wire, while his scholarly work has been published in The Hemingway Review and The St. Austin Review. He teaches literature and history at a Catholic academy in Wisconsin.

Total, radical dedication to the Blessed Virgin Mary and an energetic program to spread that devotion is the path to save this country.

Recently, Eric Sammons shared the grim results of a Pew Survey on religion in America. The survey found that only 19 percent of Americans self-identify as Catholic, a 20 percent decrease from the 24 percent who did so in 2007. For every 100 people who enter the Catholic Church, 840 depart it. To make matters worse, only 29 percent of those self-identifying Catholics actually attend Mass weekly. Meanwhile, the number of religious “nones” in the United States has ballooned by 81 percent—many of them former Catholics.

Sammons goes on to ask why we are seeing this depressing decline in the United States and how we can combat it. He observes that “Catholics need to consider a complete overhaul in how the Church currently operates. Absolutely nothing should be off the table, except those things that are of divine origin.” While noting that there’s no single silver bullet that will resolve the problem, Sammons does offer some sound proposals for ways to reverse the collapse, including making the Traditional Latin Mass more widely available, halting interreligious activities, and returning to the use of the Baltimore Catechism. ….

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