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Mass attendance returns to pre-lockdown levels

February 07, 2025

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CWN Editor's Note: Mass attendance in the US has finally returned to the levels that prevailed before the Covid lockdown, according to surveys by Georgetown’s Center for the Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA).

Just under one-fourth of all American Catholics are typically at Mass on Sundays in 2025, CARA reports. That figure nearly matches the pre-lockdown number: 24.4.

During and immediately after the lockdown, from 2020 to 2023, weekly Mass attendance had sunk to 15% of the Catholic population.

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  • Posted by: mazzachuck6222 - Feb. 07, 2025 9:05 PM ET USA

    Would we say our kids attend schools if they attended 25% of the time? Would we say we have a job if we showed up only 25% of the time? And, yet, some call themselves Catholic even though they miss Mass 75% of the time!