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Stevens\n\nWHY DID I LEAVE THE CHURCH?13Anonymous  \nSOME REASONS DON'T CLASSIFY 17Mabel Wick  \nCONVERSION FROM CATHOLICISM?24George H.Tavard,A.A.  \nTRUTH AND THE TEACHER 33Niall Brennan  \nTHE LEAKAGE PROBLEM IN ENGLAND 38John Todd  \nBOOK REVIEWS 44  \nINTEGRITY IS PUBLISHED BY LAY CATHOLICSAND DEVOTED TO THE INTEGRATION OF RELIGIONAND LIFE FOR OUR TIMES.  \nPublished monthly by Integrity Publishing Co.,Ine.157 East 38th Street,New York 16,N.Y.,MU-5-8125.Edited by Dorothy Dohen.  \nRe-entered as Second Class Matter May 11,1950 at thePost Office in New York,N.Y.,under the Act of March 3,1879.All single copies 254 each;yearly subscription:Domestic $3.00,Canadian $3.50,Foreign $4.05.  \neditorial  \nIn six articles in this issue of Integrity we think our writers have givenan adequate introduction to the problem of why Catholics leave theChurch.\"Introduction\"we say advisedly,because it is a subject thatneeds much more exhaustive treatment than it is possible to give herelimited as we are for space.\"Introduction\"—because it is a subjectthat requires intensive investigation,careful and prolonged thought,andconsidered action on the part of laymen as well as priests.If this issueserves only as a prod to further research,increased prayer and moreapostolic zeal it will have fulfilled its purpose.  \nThe necessity of further investigation of the problem is obvious.Guesses about why Catholics fall away have been hazarded with moreor less accuracy,but sometimes the explanations have been too facile.The pressure of a neo-pagan world,the cult of pleasure,the almostimpossible tension between Christian and secular ideals of life are allblamed for the steady drift away from the Church.Few AmericanCatholic sociologists have studied the extent of that drift or investigatedthe reasons for it.Hardly anyone would quarrel with Joseph H.Fichter,S.J.when in Social Relations in the Urban Parish he surmises that thefact that practice of the faith falls off most among those Catholics whoare married and aged 30 to 40 can be accounted for by birth control.But what other,more remote reasons,influence people to leave theChurch?What's behind the birth control?Mixed marriages have beenblamed for much loss of faith,but Father Fichter seems to feel thatthis contention remains so far unproved,and almost no one would benaive enough to hold that only Catholics in mixed marriages use birthcontrol.Secular education has been blamed for the loss of faith amongyoung Catholics,but no one(as far as we know)has made any sort ofstudy of leakage among graduates of Catholic schools.  \nA simple,apparently sincere Catholic woman,whom we found oneday reading a devotional publication of a fringe sect,accounted for herdrifting from Catholicism by saying that she never heard a sermon thatdealt with her personal problems or offered her any assurance thatChrist loved her personally,and \"this book does.\"Whether her criti-cism is justified or not,it touches on a problem we have discussed inother issues of Integrity——notably the recent parish issue.In seeking toprotect the faith of Catholics—a minority in a Protestant country—have we overemphasized apologetics and underplayed spirituality(which is quite another matter from novenas and private devotions)?Perhaps the statement,\"It is a great misfortune to have learned the  \ncatechism against some one,\"can no longer be said about Catholic edu-cation in America;but is the individual Catholic as a child and lateras an adult helped to develop a strong,personal love for Christ,a senseof responsibility to Him and to the Church?“A love strong as death”isn't nourished in those who see only in the Church an organizationwhich they hold as true but to which they merely happen to belong,and whose position they see simply as antithetical to the rest of theworld.Some realization of what it means to be chosen by God formembershi","cbCaib7lsw0sc5wb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaib7lsw0sc5wb","pdf",1923488,52,"English","# Integrity\n## Editorial\n## Emotional Disorders and Loss of Faith\n## Why Did I Leave the Church?\n## Some Reasons Don't Classify\n## Conversion from Catholicism?\n## Truth and the Teacher\n## The Leakage Problem in England\n## Book Reviews","[{\"question\":\"Why does Integrity argue that explanations for Catholics leaving the Church can be too facile?\",\"answer\":\"The editorial says many guesses have been offered with more or less accuracy, but sometimes the explanations are not rigorous enough and need more exhaustive treatment and investigation.\"},{\"question\":\"What areas does the editorial say require further study?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights the need to investigate broader, more remote reasons behind people leaving the Church, including what is behind birth control and whether other social factors have been properly examined.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the editorial critique Catholic religious formation?\",\"answer\":\"It questions whether Catholic education has overemphasized 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