Posts Tagged ‘cultural Catholics’

Cultural Catholics: The loosely-tethered half of the American church

Thursday, November 28th, 2024
Cultural Catholics

What matters most when we reach out to Catholics who do not attend Mass regularly (aka “cultural Catholics”)? Everything. It’s not just the right words, careful timing, thoughtful stories, our tone and everything else; it’s all of it. Add to the top of the list how we personally live our Catholic faith in our everyday Read more

Australia’s PM – Cultural Catholic of humble origins

Thursday, May 26th, 2022

Australia’s new prime minister is a self-described cultural Catholic with an agenda to make social reforms and take action on climate change. Anthony Albanese, centre-left leader of the Labor Party, claimed election victory on 21 May defeating the conservative Liberal-National coalition that has governed for nine years. Mr Albanese always described himself as the only Read more

Who are cultural Catholics?

Friday, September 11th, 2015

The share of Americans whose primary religious affiliation is Catholic has fallen somewhat in recent years, and now stands at about one-in-five. But according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. Catholics and others, an additional one-in-ten American adults (9%) consider themselves Catholic or partially Catholic in other ways, even though they do Read more