Interesting Facts

The last few weeks I have come across some interesting facts in two very different areas. However, they fascinated me. (I also found them to be a bit unnerving.)

Diapers:

• 50 million disposable diapers enter the landfill every day.

• It takes 500 years for each diaper to decompose.

Catholicism:

• 3 out of every 10 Catholics have left the Church - more than in other churches, even mainline.
• Weekly Mass attendance has dropped from 75% in 1945 to 34% in 2005.
• The number of priests in the U.S.A. stopped growing in 1969.
• In the U.S.A. there are more priests over the age of 90 than under the age of 30.