Religion: Women & Religion

If the women of the western world were not religious, parsons, church mice and a small minority of men would have the churches pretty much to themselves. Last week the Ladies' Home Journal monthly survey reported upon what 37,000,000 U. S. women think about religion. Only 47% of them attend church regularly, although 76% are church members. Of Roman Catholic women, 85% are regular churchgoers. Of Protestant women, 54% actually go to church—a percentage which, even allowing for U. S. Protestant men who do not attend church, is somewhat higher than Statistician Roger...

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