Jeanie Hannaman

By Thomas Griffin, Crisis Magazine -The decline of the Catholic Church in America was happening rapidly before COVID-19. Returning to the methods that produced the radical decline in Sunday Mass attendance along with the low numbers of marriages, baptisms, catechumens, and overall members practicing their faith would be both ignorant and fatal. What we need now is a shift that runs away from the patterns of the previous decades and runs toward the apostolic fervor of the early Church. 

By Rodney Pelletier, Church Militant - Since 1965, Catholicism, in general, has been declining steadily. But by 2000, the decline turned into a free fall... There's a biting quote attributed to Abp. Fulton Sheen regarding Catholic education, "If you want your kids to defend their faith, send them to a public school. If you want them to lose their faith, send them to a Catholic School."

By Constance T. Hull, Catholic Exchange - We suffer from self-inflicted wounds. That has been the state of the Church since her institution, but faithful Catholics are growing more and more concerned about the state of things. Many bishops and priests seem to be telling themselves and their flocks that everything will go back to normal. There is no going back. If the pandemic has shown us one thing, it is that we cannot live as comfortable Catholics paralyzed by worldliness any longer.