My parish priest is also Vicar General for Brentwood Diocese. He has recently returned from one of his bi-annual meetings of vicars general, which took place in Salford. He remarked at the weekend that his colleagues had all recounted the same story: apathy rules. Mass indifference is, it seems, the Catholic reality across the country.
This has long been the topic of discussion among those of us involved with catechesis and has been the subject of numerous books. Sherry Weddell’s Forming Intentional Disciples is a good example and gives extensive consideration to the statistics and reasons for this prevailing attitude as well as offering some practical solutions.
