Catholic Marriages in the USA Have Declined by 60% Since 2000

Catholic marriages dropped from approximately 267,000 in 2000 to 111,718 in 2024 — a decline of almost 60%, according to data reported by EWTN News on 31 January from the Official Catholic Directory.

Compared with 1970, when there were around 426,000 Catholic weddings, today's figures show a decline of around 75%, despite the growth in the Catholic population.

This phenomenon has been evident for decades. A similar headline was published in June 2011 when a study by Our Sunday Visitor found that the number of weddings celebrated in American Catholic churches had dropped by 60%. At that time, there was 'a shift from 8.6 marriages per 1,000 US Catholics in 1972 to 2.6 marriages per 1,000 Catholics in 2010'.

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