San Francisco archdiocese studying steep drop in sacramental marriages

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San Francisco archdiocese studying steep drop in sacramental marriages
May 25, 2011
The Archdiocese of San Francisco, California, is conducting a special study of its marriage-preparation program, looking for an explanation of a steep decline in the number of Catholic weddings.

The San Francisco archdiocese has seen a 47% decline in the number of Catholic weddings in the past 20 years. During that same period, the Catholic population of the archdiocese rose by about 12%.

catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=10438
 
Extremely poor leadership?Complete lack of Catechesis?.Modernism?Relatavism?Heterodox Bishops and clergy? Duh.
 
Pax_et_Bonum said:
Extremely poor leadership?Complete lack of Catechesis?.Modernism?Relatavism?Heterodox Bishops and clergy? Duh.
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Careful, you might attract liberal Catholics who keep saying that this isn’t happening.
 
Of all places…

St. Francis of Assisi, please pray for the Archdiocese of the city named for you.
 
I’m in San Francisco. Is it that there could be a lack of people who are getting married at all? I’m very single and will probably remain so. I notice a lot of single people at the masses I attend. They’re always praying for married people but not for single people (in prayers and homilies). So today when prayers were mentioned again for married couples; i felt left out again.
Then later on I thought that maybe single people don’t need prayers as much as married people do, because it’s more difficult being married. I don’t know.🤷
Many of the people I see at mass are devoted but not that well taught. I often wonder why priests don’t give some instruction to parishioners now and then. I was happy when I saw one priest doing just that. But was anyone paying attention? There are no consequences for people doing as they please anyway, or so it seems to them.
So I’m thinking maybe lack of instruction could be the answer, as mentioned in a previous post on this subject. I come across very few Catholics here who even care about knowing their faith, much less learning more about it. It’s like they’re asleep in the lap of the faith and they seem to think they’re okay.
Please pray for us here in San Francisco. There are some beautiful parishes here in this city which has been tarnished so much that I was even ashamed to put where I was from in this forum.
 
RosalieM said:
I’m in San Francisco. Is it that there could be a lack of people who are getting married at all? I’m very single and will probably remain so. I notice a lot of single people at the masses I attend. They’re always praying for married people but not for single people (in prayers and homilies). So today when prayers were mentioned again for married couples; i felt left out again.
Then later on I thought that maybe single people don’t need prayers as much as married people do, because it’s more difficult being married. I don’t know.🤷
Many of the people I see at mass are devoted but not that well taught. I often wonder why priests don’t give some instruction to parishioners now and then. I was happy when I saw one priest doing just that. But was anyone paying attention? There are no consequences for people doing as they please anyway, or so it seems to them.
So I’m thinking maybe lack of instruction could be the answer, as mentioned in a previous post on this subject. I come across very few Catholics here who even care about knowing their faith, much less learning more about it. It’s like they’re asleep in the lap of the faith and they seem to think they’re okay.
Please pray for us here in San Francisco. There are some beautiful parishes here in this city which has been tarnished so much that I was even ashamed to put where I was from in this forum.
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The situation you describe is so sad.I agree that there is a lot of sleepwalking through the Faith.
 
RosalieM said:
I’m in San Francisco. Is it that there could be a lack of people who are getting married at all?
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I agree that demographic changes will also need to be considered. If the percentage of Catholics grew by 12% during those years, how many were already married or not getting married at all? Is the growth due to the number of children being born to immigrants (35% of all children in San Francisco, according to a 2005 study) in which case, how much of that growing Catholic population was old enough to marry?

I think an important part of assessing whether the problem of falling sacramental marriages is due to poor catechesis, relativism, or something else is to look at the demographic changes during that period. What proportion of Catholics were getting married in the Church, versus getting married outside the Church vs. not getting married but living as a couple.
 
The article was about the dearth of SACRAMENTAL marriages.Other forms of marital union for Catholics are simply not recognized by the Church nor orthodox Catholics.My own brother got married outside of the Church and I could not in good conscience attend.

I’m sure the reasons you’ve listed are causative and the predecative factors I have raised have resulted in precisely that.
 
Are we supposed to be surprised? This is the homosexual and counter-cultural center of the United States after all. I don’t think all of the catholic Asian and Latino immigration in the world can change that.
 
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