How to Better Reach Inactive Catholics?

Matthew makes some good points and offers up some good suggestions.

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Friday, February 18, 2011 11:19 AM

by Matthew Warner

There are about 67 Million Catholics in the United States. Only about 32% of those attend Mass weekly. That means that there are about 45 million Catholics who are at least mildly inactive. And half of those 45 million “rarely or never” attend Mass. That means that the non-Catholic is far more likely to encounter an inactive Catholic than an active one in their day-to-day life. That’s not good.

When was the last time you invited somebody to Mass or to something at your parish?  When was the last time your pastor encouraged you to invite somebody to come? When was the last time you even had an event at your parish that was ideal for inviting people to come?

Inviting inactive Catholics back to Mass and to active parish life should be second nature for us. There are good and bad ways to do it. But we don’t seem to be doing it much at all.

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