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Pewresearch reports 38% of U.S. Catholics say they attend Mass weekly, down from 41% the year before Francis became pope. So much for the “Francis effect.”
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Pope Francis Still Highly Regarded in U.S., but Signs of Disenchantment Emerge

Five years after his election, pope draws growing number of negative assessments, especially from Catholic Republicans (…
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Papal biographer Austen Ivereigh wrote in 2016, that Pope Francis “could trigger a return to parishes on a large scale.”