Here's Some Interesting Research

[PhuturePriest]

http://thosecatholicmen.com/the-catholic-man-crisis/

 

Thoughts and opinions are welcome from non-detractors and those who are not known crisis-doubters.

Edited February 18, 2015 by PhuturePriest

[Era Might]

The data seems to treat Catholicism in modern terms, as a sort of personal add-on, a personal (and private) way of living. The phrase "creating generations of Catholic men who are on fire for Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church" strikes me as completely phony. Aside from the recruitment language (creating a corps of spiritual marines), it says nothing about how men actually live. The religion is irrelevant to men because it is irrelevant to their actual lived lives. This data treats the church as a sort of nest where men should, like women, create a social dwelling. People rarely went to confession or received the Eucharist in the middle ages, and that had nothing to do with their "manliness." The social services conception of Catholicism (with the church as an institutional sacrament-dispenser which you buy into like an insurance plan) is not particularly appealing to men.

Edited February 18, 2015 by Era Might

[Ash Wednesday]

I would be curious to know how those statistics on men measure up with women, side by side.