Wide variations in diocesan statistics on Catholic marriages
May 21, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: In a thought-provocative essay for Catholic World Report, J.J. Ziegler examines the wide difference from one American Catholic diocese to another in the proportion of Catholics who are married in the Church.
Ziegler reports that “a Catholic in the Diocese of Salina [Kansas] is over 15 times more likely to marry in the Church than is a Catholic in the Diocese of Lubbock [Texas].” Interviewing diocesan officials, he finds a wide variety of possible explanations for the differences.
The Official Catholic Directory statistics for 2024 show 107,051 marriages in the Latin-rite dioceses of the US. Of these, 85,171 were Catholic marriages; 21,880 were classified as interfaith.
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