The Church Isn’t Too Good at Introspection

"...There’s one causal factor, however, that goes virtually unmentioned in all these articles, even though the data suggests it’s the most important. As Pew’s 2009 Faith in Flux study found, over thirty million Americans are ex-Catholics, and of those: “Two-thirds of former Catholics who have become unaffiliated… say they left their childhood faith because they stopped believing in its teachings”...

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2013/02/the-church-isnt-too-good-at-introspection/