Jesuit magazine AMERICA has some good news!


From the issue of April 20 - 27, 2009.

"As many as 150,000 new or returning Catholics are expected to join or return to the Catholic Church in 2009 in the United States.

"Many of them will do so in parishes across the country during the Easter Vigil on April 11."

Humm ... well, let's see. That's an average of between 7 and 8 per parish in the roughly 19,000 Catholic parishes across the 'ole U.S.A..