Bishop Barron Expresses Concerns About the "Nones" At USCCB Meeting

Watching TV last night and listening to Bishop Barron speaking at the USCCB Spring Conference in Baltimore about the challenges the Church faces from the "Nones," (religiously unaffiliated),  young people who are deserting the Church in large numbers, you could get a sense of the seriousness of the problem the Church faces now and in the future. Bishop Barron is the right one to lead the evangelization effort to try to show millenials and young people that the Church has something good to offer them but its going to take creativity, energy, common sense approaches and resources to bring that about. And lots of prayer.
There are certainly solutions to combating secularism, individualism and an overall mistrust of institutions among the young, and honestly the sexual abuse crisis has not helped and caused great harm. Also the lack of transparency that continues in the episcopacy is a problem. But none of these problems are unsurpassable. The Holy Spirit combined with efforts geared at showing young people the value and goodness of delving into spirituality, different forms of prayer, Eucharistic Adoration, Mass, social justice activities, Bible study and the Catholic intellectual tradition could bear great "fruit."
There is no time to waste. The problem as Bishop Barron noted is very serious.
The Church needs to invest money, time, resources and experts to try to face this problem and come up with solutions.
NJA

Sobering Statistic:
"For every one person joining the Church today, 6.45 are leaving and most are leaving at young ages, primarily before age 23."