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This Insights eNewsletter was sent to subscribers on May 15, 2015.

eNewsletter Subject: Rejuvenating Catholicism in America (and everywhere)

The latest Pew survey seems to reveal both a relative and an absolute decline of the Catholic population in the United States.

Phil Lawler considers some of the implications in two commentaries:

• American Catholics are flunking the test of evangelization
• The marketing failure of 'new' Catholicism

Perhaps another area of concern is the perception that bishops still too often seem to give a higher priority to optional socio-political matters than to evangelization. But that is hardly just an American problem. See my observations on Burundi, bishops, and Catholic influence....

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