Archdiocesan Leadership Institute March 3, 2020 Archdiocesan Leadership Institute 2020 Objectives: Assess the current ministry territory Going, Going, Gone … Identify Now What! engagement as a ministerial lens Consider implications for Bob McCarty, D.Min. pastoral leadership bobmccarty@verizon.net 1 2 Religiosity and Practice High Low Abiders Adapters Assenters Avoiders Atheists (20%) (20%) (31%) (24%) (5%) Principal Researchers Dr. Richard Morehouse, Ph.d. Bob McCarty, D.Min. Qualitative Research Analysis Designer Project Coordinator A Faith of their Own , Pearce and Lundquist Denton Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University Principal Quantitative Researchers and Interviewers @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch 3 4 Disaffiliation is a PROCESS Saint Mary’s Press Research that BEGINS AT A YOUNG AGE Quantitative (Surveyed Data 2015) Followed by and happens OVER TIME Qualitative (Storied Data 2017) 5 6 Bob McCarty, D.Min. bobmccarty@verizon.net 1
Archdiocesan Leadership Institute March 3, 2020 Office2 Existing Research Beatriz’ Story • A majority leave before age 21. About ½ become unaffiliated “Nones” and the other ½ begin to identify with another denomination. When you listen to understand, • 35% of millennials (18-33) are religiously unaffiliated. 22.8% of the what do you hear? general population is unaffiliated – about 56 million people (Pew Study). • There are an estimated 20 million former Catholics, 5.4 million between 15-25 years old. (CARA) 7 8 Rapid Growth of Religiously Unaffiliated Adults, in millions 60---------------------------- 57.1 55.8 estimate 55---------------------------- 54.5 50---------------------------- Range, given margin of error 45---------------------------- 40---------------------------- 37.6 36.6 35---------------------------- 35.6 Source: 2014 Religious Landscape 0 Study, conducted June 4-Sept 30, 2007 2014 2014 PEW RESEARCH CENTER @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch 9 10 PRRI/Florida State University Survey 2017 American Spirituality and Religiosity neither spiritual and spiritual nor religious religious 29% 31% SO: 51% - religious 47% - spiritual not spiritual, spiritual, but but religious not religious 22% 18% @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch 11 11 12 Bob McCarty, D.Min. bobmccarty@verizon.net 2
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Archdiocesan Leadership Institute March 3, 2020 Catholic Youth Disaffiliation Between the age of 15 – 25 … once self- identified as being Catholic and now no longer self-identifies as being Catholic. @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch 13 14 At what age did disaffiliated youth report that they stopped identifying as Catholic? @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch 15 16 Reasons Why Young People Leave The Reasons Why They Left the Church (Responses to open-ended question) Church • Disagree with/don’t believe in Church’s teachings, nonsensical 38.9% • Don’t believe in religion altogether, see “many paths” • Changed denomination or religion • 16.7% 16.1% Family change in affiliation or practice 16.1% 9.4% • 7.8% 7.8% Don’t believe in God 6.7% 2.8% 1.… • Moral failures of Church or leadership, e.g., hypocrisy, misconduct, etc. • No freedom to question, doubt, discuss openly • Drifted away • Church not welcoming • Other @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch 17 18 17 18 Bob McCarty, D.Min. bobmccarty@verizon.net 3
Archdiocesan Leadership Institute March 3, 2020 Religious Identity among the “religiously unaffiliated” millennials is about . . . Hungers of Young People: No single reason … • Meaning and Purpose No single solution … • Connection • Recognition • Holy • Justice Where are my hungers being fed? @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch 19 19 20 Where They Go 35% 29% 14% 13% 9% None Christian, Christian, Protestant Non-Christian Agnostic/Atheist Non-Protestant Religion @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch 21 22 Globalization Rationalization Pluralization SECULARIZATION The Bigger Thing De-institutionalization Individual Personal Autonomy De-traditionalization @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch 23 24 Bob McCarty, D.Min. bobmccarty@verizon.net 4
Archdiocesan Leadership Institute March 3, 2020 Trust of Leadership Trust in Institutions Institution 1970s Today • Big Business 26% 18% • The Medical System 80% 39% • The Presidency 52% 36% • Television News 46% 21% • Congress 42% 9% • Newspapers 39% 20% • Public Schools 58% 30% • Banks 60% 27% • Organized Religion 65% 41% 25 26 Trust of Church Leadership Trust of Church Leadership The challenge in an era of diminishing resources: Pew Survey July 2019 • Institutional preservation organizational • 28% of all Catholics have scaled back both mission Mass attendance and donations • Maintenance ministry missionary ministry • 15% of Catholic weekly Mass goers have scaled back attendance and 20% have scaled back • Sustainability must emphasize mission and donations vision 27 28 Catholic Markers Past 17 Yrs “teachers of the faith can no longer 34% Infant Baptism 52% Adult Baptism rely on a pervasive Catholic culture to 24% RCIA 19% First Communion form their students. That culture no 8% Confirmation longer exists…” 44% Marriages 59% Annulments 17% Funerals 14% Secondary School --Patrick Manning PhD, 40% Elementary School Seton Hall Seminary Parish R.E. 30% @SMP_Prez #catholicresearch 29 29 30 Bob McCarty, D.Min. bobmccarty@verizon.net 5
Archdiocesan Leadership Institute March 3, 2020 Shift of the Normative “fewer and fewer Catholics recognize the relevance of the sacraments for their lives. . . . Yet none of this is to say that spirituality and religion are on the way out.” Religious identity is increasingly . . . --Patrick Manning, PhD Personally Constructed and Piecemealed 31 32 They see themselves as moral and committed to Affiliation living a moral life, but High Engagement Disaffiliation • reflect Peter Berger’s Sacramental Life - Mass • Doctrinal Adherence observation about • Communal Involvement • Financial Giving secularism – “I can be • Ritual Practice • Prayer & devotion ethical without religion .” • Ongoing Catechesis 33 34 Join The Conversation Crossfit @ Rachel CatholicResearch.smp.org Yoga & Affiliation Meditation Center The Dinner Bob McCarty, D.Min. Party bobmccarty@verizon.net Where are their hungers being fed? 35 36 Bob McCarty, D.Min. bobmccarty@verizon.net 6
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