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Catholic and Protestant Church Attendance Indianapolis Star [United States] April 10, 2004 More Protestants than Catholics now attend church on a weekly basis, according to polls taken by the Gallup Organization. - After the clergy sexual abuse scandal broke in January 2002, Catholic weekly church attendance reached an all-time low of 35 percent. By November 2003, attendance had climbed back to 45 percent. - During that period, Protestant attendance remained fairly stable at around 47 percent - 1n 1955, however, almost twice as many Catholics as Protestants attended church on a weekly basis, 74 percent to 42 percent. - In 2003, 40 percent of Catholics said they had attended church the previous week, while 47 percent of Protestants said they had attended church the previous week. -- Sources: The Gallup Organization, Religion News Service |
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