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The Call to Missionary Discipleship
as young adults between ages eighteen and twenty-three.
Only one-fifth who are now unaffiliated (21 percent) and
one-third who are now Protestant (34 percent) departed
after turning age twenty-four.
• The population of Latinos in the United States has dra-
matically increased, adding to a growth in Catholic popu-
lations in various geographical areas of the United States.
Mass Attendance
• “More than three in ten adult Catholics (31.4 percent)
are estimated to be attending Mass in any given week . . .
Twenty-three percent say they attend Mass every week
(once a week or more often)” (Sacraments Today, 2008,
Executive Summary, 3).
• The above statistic on weekly Mass attendance is espe-
cially true among the “Millennial” generation (roughly
those who were born between 1981 and 2000). Only
24 percent of Catholic Millennials attend Mass at least
weekly, as compared to 56 percent of Catholics born
before 1943.
• Among “Baby Boomers” (those born between 1943
and 1960), on