religion in decline (Jesus Christ, priests, tradition, blood, attend)

[biffyd]

as part of my final year project at University, i am trying to find out why Catholics attend church. are people going because they see it as a duty or as traditional? do people feel they the church is a place they can gain comfort from? i am also interested in what people think of the way services are structered and whether scandals involving priests have made you think differently about the Catholic Church? finally, i would be interested to hear from anyone who has been a regular attendee in the past but does not anymore and why?

[Green Gaia]

Moving this to General Religion Discussion forum.

[Holy_is_his_name]

I attend a catholic church regularly, not because I've always done it. I only converted to catholism about 4 yrs ago. I guess I first started going to fill a whole inside of myself. I felt as though something were missing, and even though I did not really understand the liturgy at that point, I kept going becasue I was part of something. Now I go because I know that at every Mass Heaven touches down and unleavened bread and wine are changed into the body, blood, soul, and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. (The changing is called transubstansiation.) I believe the Catholic church is the church that Jesus instituted in the Year 33, and that it is infallible. With that I'll adress the question of the scandal. While the church is infallible in her teachings, people are just people, and we all sin. I am not defending them, but this does not point that the church is infallible.