When the Enlightenment Hit the Neighborhoods: The Waning of the Catholic Tradition - and Hope for Its Future

Why has the traditional, authority-based way of doing faith collapsed? Faith and reason are in a fight, and faith is losing.

Only fifteen percent of young Catholics attend church regularly. If ex-Catholics were a religious denomination, they would be the third-largest in the U.S. The young, the quizzical, the semi-faithful, the somewhat churched, the unchurched, the agnostic, and the fallen away no longer look to faith for credible insight into how they should live their lives. Why is there ...