Empty pews: have you got the answers?

I WOULD be grateful if Irish Examiner readers could help with a study to discover why churchgoing is on the decline throughout Ireland and Britain.

Attendance has been in steady decline in mainstream denominations since the 1960s, making Ireland and the UK different from most of the rest of the world where church attendance has continued to grow.

No satisfactory answer has been found for this. For example, the idea that church decline was due to growing scientific knowledge has been made invalid by US statistics.