text: It is not just people under 30 who are leaving...many friends my age find themselves totally surprised that they no longer are a part of the church...they have progressed spiritually and have bypassed the pious pap that passes for religion in the majority of the Catholic Church.  We are baby boomers and beyond...we no longer feel at home in a church in which we labored for decades.
  
  I wish someone (CARA?) would research not just the youth that are leaving (which is a pretty normal thing..."and then they return when they have a child to baptize"...we've known that for ages)...research why people in their 60s, 70s, & 80s are leaving or have left in the past decade...