Neo-Church’s False Metrics Mask Spiritual Collapse of American “Catholics”
Catholic News Agency reports on a Leadership Roundtable survey claiming rising engagement among young U.S. “Catholics” despite declining membership, with 84% of 18–29-year-olds allegedly attending “Mass” monthly. The article celebrates superficial metrics like attendance at “social events” while obscuring the conciliar sect’s doctrinal bankruptcy.
Naturalistic Fallacy Equates Bodily Presence With Sanctity
The survey’s categories—“Faithful” (monthly attendance), “Occasional” (yearly), and “Disengaged”—reflect the neo-church’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church). Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code mandates weekly Mass attendance under pain of mortal sin. Yet the article trumpets as “hope” that 65% of youth merely occupy pews monthly. Such laxity directly contradicts Pope Pius XII’s condemnation of those who “reduce to a minimum the meaning of the commandments” (Mystici Corporis Christi, 1943).
“Two-thirds of young adults (65%) said they attend Mass at least monthly now, compared with 43% of adults aged 45–64”
This statistic proves not revival but apostasy. True Catholic engagement requires sanctifying grace, impossible in the invalid Novus Ordo rite (Pius VI, Auctorem Fidei, 1794). The 84% attending “Eucharistic adoration” in desecrated churches commit idolatry before invalidly consecrated bread.
Financial Obsession Reveals Mercantile Ecclesiology
The survey’s focus on “financial transparency” (rated “extremely important” by 45%) exposes the conciliar sect’s materialist inversion of priorities. Pius XI condemned such secular preoccupations: “The Church… demands the loyal and sincere submission of the whole man… not merely submission of his will and intellect” (Quas Primas, 1925). When 47% fret over donations funding “legal fees,” they echo Judas complaining about the ointment’s cost (John 12:4–5).
Leadership Roundtable—founded by modernists after the 2002 abuse crisis—embodies the heresy condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). By urging “greater incorporation of the expertise of the laity,” it rejects the divine constitution of the Church (Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, 1896).
False Trust in Predators and Innovators
The claim that 77% trust “pastor and other clergy” reveals diabolical disorientation. These figures include:
- Unordained “lay ministers” (invalidly “commissioned” post-1972)
- Priests ordained with the invalid Paul VI rite (Pius XII, Sacramentum Ordinis, 1947)
- Openly homosexual clergy (Sodom’s sin cried to heaven, Genesis 18:20)
When 49% want bishops to “involve the laity in solving Church issues,” they reject Pius X’s condemnation of democratizing the Church: “The Church is essentially an unequal society… comprising two categories of persons, the pastors and the flock” (Vehementer Nos, 1906).
Parish Schools: Catechetical Wastelands
Only 53% consider parish schools “thriving”—unsurprising when they teach:
- Religious indifferentism (contra Pius IX, Quanta Cura, 1864)
- Evolution as fact (contra Pius XII, Humani Generis, 1950)
- “LGBTQ+ acceptance” (contra Genesis 19)
St. Pius X mandated the Catechism of the Council of Trent as the gold standard. The neo-church’s schools produce functional illiterates in doctrine, unable to recite the Apostles’ Creed.
Satanic Subversion Via Abuse Crisis Exploitation
By framing the abuse crisis as resolved through bureaucratic “charters,” the article hides its roots in modernism. Pius X warned that modernists view dogma as “symbolical formulas… to be harmonized with science and history” (Lamentabili Sane, 1907). The crisis exploded precisely because the post-conciliar church abandoned:
- Thomistic seminary formation (Pius X, Pieni L’Animo, 1906)
- Mortification and modesty (Pius XII, Sacra Virginitas, 1954)
- Exclusion of homosexuals from seminaries (Leo XIII, Officiorum ac Munerum, 1897)
The survey’s authors belong to the same cabal that enabled predators while dismantling Catholic discipline. Their “hope” is the triumph of the ape over the angel.
Conclusion: Apostasy Clothed in Statistical Raiment
This survey celebrates numerical crumbs while the conciliar sect starves souls of grace. As Pius XI declared: “When once men recognize… that Christ has been banished… they will at once realize the disastrous consequences” (Quas Primas). Until America kneels before Christ the King—not the neo-church’s humanitarian NGO—no “engagement” metrics will mask its damnation.
Source:
Numbers down but engagement up among youngest U.S. Catholic adults, survey finds (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 13.11.2025