13% of U.S. Catholics Have Attended a Roman Rite Mass in the Past 5 Years
PewResearch.org published on June 16 new data on Catholic practices and devotions. 20% of American adults identify as Catholic (52 million).
• 50% of U.S. Catholic adults in the 2025 survey say they pray daily.
• 28% say they go to the Eucharist weekly (14,560,000).
• 23% say they go to confession at least once a year.
• 13 % say they do all three of these
On the Mass in the Roman rite: The survey described it as a Mass where “the entire Mass is said in Latin and where the priest faces the altar with his back to the people in the pews.”
• 13% of U.S. Catholics say they have attended a Mass in the Roman rite at least once in the last five years.
• 2% of Catholics say they attend this at least weekly the Mass in the Roman Rite (1,040,000)
• 7% of those who go to the Eucharist weekly, attend the Roman rite - and another 10% attend sometimes.
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13% of all US Catholics attended a Traditional Latin Mass in the Past 5 Years: Traditional Catholics are 7.1% of all practicing Catholics in America
Their number, 13%, is meaningless. I have attended a traditional Latin Mass within the past year, but the readings were in English. Since Pew's question specifies that "the entire Mass is said in Latin," my answer to them would have been "no".
At my parish, the readings are said in Latin and later, just before the sermon, are said again in English.
Even if Pew is understating the numbers, these percentages refute the constant claims of the Catholic establishment that those who attend the Roman Rite, that is, the TLM, are "miniscule."