Jeanie Hannaman

By Auguste Meyrat, The Stream - In a recent essay discussing the rapid decline of the Catholic Church, Crisis Magazine editor Eric Sammons sounded the alarm among Catholics and most Christians today. Going over the numbers of a new Pew survey, Sammons writes that “for every 100 people who join the Catholic Church, 840 leave.” Membership at Protestant churches is also decreasing, though at a slower rate: “For every 100 people that become Protestant, 180 leave.”... The great majority of those leaving go on to become “nones” — people with no religious affiliation. Not exactly atheists, most “nones” are the types to say that they “were raised Catholic,” are “spiritual, but not religious,” and “don’t believe in organized religion.”