The Illusion of Religious Stability: A Mask for America’s Apostasy
Washington, D.C. Newsroom reports on a Pew Research Center study claiming “religion holds steady in America,” with 70% of U.S. adults identifying with a religion. The article frames this as evidence against secularization trends, noting shifts in young women’s religiosity and persistent generational gaps in worship attendance.
Statistical Deception Masks Spiritual Catastrophe
The Pew study’s methodology commits grave category errors by equating true religion with its counterfeit forms. When the report states that “about 70% of U.S. adults identify with a religion,” it obscures the theological reality (res et veritas) that outside the Catholic Church—the sole Ark of Salvation—no valid religion exists. As Pope Pius IX taught in the Syllabus of Errors (1864):
“Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error #15) is condemned, as is the notion that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error #18).
By bundling apostate Protestant sects, non-Christian creeds, and conciliar sect affiliates under “religion,” the study promotes the heresy of indifferentism. The article’s celebration of stagnant affiliation rates ignores the collapse of supernatural faith—replacing it with sociological trivia about prayer frequency (32% of young adults) and service attendance (43% among seniors).
Generational Apostasy Revealed in Stark Data
While the article claims “no clear rise or fall in religious affiliation,” its own data exposes devastation:
“In 2007, 54% of women and 40% of men ages 18 to 24 reported they prayed daily. Data from 2023-2024 revealed only 30% of women and 26% of men in the same age group said they pray daily.”
This nearly 50% collapse in daily prayer among youth confirms the conciliar sect’s failure to transmit the Faith. The vanishing gender gap in irreligiosity—young women’s prayer rates plummeting faster than men’s—reflects feminism’s corrosive effects, condemned by Pope Pius XI in Casti Connubii (1930).
The Conciliar Sect’s Role in Manufacturing Decline
Crucially omitted is how Vatican II’s aggiornamento enabled this crisis. The article’s reference to “attending religious services” is meaningless when most “Catholic” liturgies since 1969 invalidly simulate the Mass. As St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili Sane (1907):
“The Church listening cooperates… with the Church teaching” (Error #6) and “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Error #20) are modernist errors.
The conciliar sect’s anthropocentric “liturgies”—devoid of propitiatory sacrifice—produced generations ignorant of Eucharistic adoration (59% of seniors pray daily vs. 32% youth). When “service attendance” means guitar-led gatherings rather than the True Mass, statistical stability equals spiritual bankruptcy.
Silence on the Antichurch’s Apostate Fruits
Nowhere does the article address why young adults reject religion: the conciliar sect’s embrace of religious liberty (contrary to Quanta Cura), ecumenism (condemned in Mortalium Animos), and modernist catechesis. The study’s metrics—”identify with Christianity”—include apostates who deny Transubstantiation, contraception prohibitions, and Papal primacy.
As Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas (1925):
“When men… states deny and refuse to obey Christ, our Redeemer… then the entire human society… reels and heads toward destruction.”
The article’s celebration of statistical stagnation ignores America’s accelerating moral decay—abortion, gender ideology, divorce—all enabled by faux-religious leaders who bless what the Church anathematizes.
Conclusion: Only Tradition Offers Resurrection
True Catholics recognize this “stability” as the calm before divine judgment. When sacraments are invalid, doctrine corrupted, and worship profaned, numerical plateaus signal not health but rigor mortis. The solution lies not in Pew surveys but in restoring the Social Kingship of Christ through the unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam—not its conciliar counterfeit.
Source:
Pew study: Religion holds steady in America (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 09.12.2025