Ok. The Pew Survey. We do realize that out of 77 million American Catholics they only actually talked to 351 of us? Right? That was the sample size...351. Then they extrapolated and crunched some numbers that then are supposed to represent the thoughts and feelings of the American Catholic.
So when we say that 22% of American Catholics went to confession less times last year than they did the year before we do realize that there were less than 100 people that actually said that. So because of that we are then to infer that there has been a significant decline in the people going to confession and that then correlates directly to the attitudes of Pope Francis...right? Because that is what I hear has been inferred.
Did we find out if these were really practicing Catholics or Catholics because their mama done told them and had them baptized? Well according to the Mass attendence of that survey the ones attending Mass weekly were about 40%. So from a sampling of people of which 60% are Catholic pretty much at Christmas and Easter we can accurately say that Catholics are not going to confession as much as they used to and attribute that directly to Pope Francis. Because, of course, all other factors and reasons for this decline were eliminated. Did the survey ask them if they had car trouble once or twice? Did the survey ask how much less? We don't know any of those things for sure.
But what some people do seem to know for sure...it is definitely because Pope Francis is too relaxed in his leadership. That's for darn sure.
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