FOXNews.com - More Americans Say They Have No Religion

My focus

In the Northeast, self-identified Catholics made up 36 percent of adults last year, down from 43 percent in 1990.

We Catholics are now reaping what we have sewn:

• Lack of interest on the part of parents to hand down the faith.
  
• A failure of basic instruction in what Catholics believe.
  
• Being a "no show" in the culture war.
  

Now I have some problems with the concept that everyone who doesn't express a religious affiliation is an atheist. So I seem some defects in how this survey was taken.

On the other hand, I think someone who has given serious thought to the existence of God and rejected it at least is giving it the time to think. Perhaps, at the hour of death, an atheist may open up his heart to God. That's a worthy prayer intention for Lent.