1960s Quote by Ross Douthat

There was only one decline in church attendance, and that was in the late 1960s when the Vatican said it was not a sin…

— Rodney Stark

Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no…

— Eddie Gibbs

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement…

— Mike McCurry

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual…

— Alan Hirsch

I have to tell you, virtually every country I've gone to, the Catholic church is on the cutting edge of social change. Really extraordinary.

— Kerry Kennedy

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.

— Danny Masterson

I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.

— Sally Quinn

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to…

— Ross Douthat

It seemed absurd. But the fact is that the establishment in this country still does not open its arms to Catholics.

— Princess Michael of Kent

The Church in the United States turned a corner about three decades ago, and the idea that we're going back to the incoherence of…

— George Weigel

It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was a time…

— Rob Sheffield