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S i d e b a r
Are Catholics Coming Home?
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This Rock
Volume 16, Number 3
 March 2005 
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The answer is yes, in surprisingly large numbers. Estimates vary slightly, but some 320,000 inactive Catholics return to the faith every year, and of those who have not yet made the commitment to return, 39 percent have considered it at some point.
In the RCIA programs—where the majority of returning Catholics are placed—there are ten returnees for every convert.
Most of those returning are baby boomers, but younger Catholics (those between the ages of twenty and thirty-nine) return to the Church increasingly as they grow older.
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