Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

I have friends who fell away from the Church in college but came back to it when they got married and started to have children. They were usually well-educated and politically conservative. I think that for many zombie Catholics Catholicism is seen as a way to impart strong values and discipline. While I am happy to see people going to church the zombie Catholics practice a very this-world form of Catholicism and they are often arrogant and classist, at least in my experience.

Fewer working-class people attend Mass and we are beginning to see a divide between middle-class churchgoing Catholics and working-class Catholics who don’t regularly attend Mass and who are alienated from Catholic culture. This issue has existed in France for a long time and was the impetus behind the worker-priest movement in the 1940s when it was noted that many French workers were alienated from the Church. The Church needs to work on reconnecting with working-class Catholics in the developed world including the U.S. since I notice many of the same trends here as in France.