Today’s Churches Increasingly Anti-Family, by Auguste Meyrat

When it comes to the problem of children crying at Mass, Catholics have a saying: “If it ain’t crying, it’s dying.” For those who think that there are too many children at church, they should consider the opposite problem: an aging congregation on the brink of death.While the prospect of an elderly church without a future has always been a concern for most Christian communities since their very founding, much of this worry has curiously dissipated in the wake of Covid. No longer do pastors or priests care much about attracting families, nor are church committees looking for ways to appeal to younger generations.

Rather, most of the people leading churches have done their best to make church a place for the elderly and unattached, not the young. As such, the aesthetic, culture, messaging, and even behavior of the individual worshippers at most churches have now become explicitly anti-family and anti-youth …

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