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Catholic Schools and Weekly Mass Aren’t Solving the Retention Crisis

Exclude from home pageCurated Content  |  October 16, 2026

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A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about the retention crisis facing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The headline finding is pretty straightforward: nearly half the kids who are raised as LDS no longer identify that way as adults. There was a bit of controversy about the best way to compare LDS retention rates to those of other groups like Protestants or Jews, but no one has been able to dispute the simplest conclusion of the data from Pew – 46% of the LDS are not retained.

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