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U.S. Sunday Mass attendance back to pre-pandemic levels

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OSV News) — Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels — although just under one quarter of the nation’s Catholics are in the pews on a regular weekly basis.

The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University noted in a Feb. 5 post on its Nineteen Sixty-four research blog that Sunday Mass attendance in person has risen to 24% since the declared end of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2023. That rate has held through the first week of 2025.

From the start of the pandemic lockdowns in March 2020 to May 2023, attendance had averaged 15%. Prior to the pandemic, the average attendance was 24.4%.

Mark Gray, CARA’s director of polls and editor of the blog, told OSV News that attendance figures recently released by the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, had underscored a trend he and his colleagues had identified.

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I don't know what the figures are here, but from personal observation I'd say much the same about Australian attendances, whether Catholic or Protestant (on those occasions when I've attended my wife's Baptist church). Pews seem to be pretty well occupied, depending on the mass time (eg. Sunday morning masses have greater attendances than Saturday night masses).

People are still getting affected but nowhere near the peak rate. If I've interpreted these figures correctly, in Australia in the past week there have been -
  1. 585 new reported infections
  2. Zero deaths
  3. Zero new active cases (however you define that - admitted to hospital?)
  4. Zero new vaccinations (?? - seems a bit strange)

Overall we've carried out about 70 million vaccionations in a population of about 27 million so obviously many of us have had multiple vaccinations.

It will hang around but it seems to have lost its lethality.
 
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