Catholic Parishes of the 21st CenturyA seminal moment in the study of U. S. Catholic parish life came in the 1980s with the publication of a series of reports from the ground breaking Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life. These reports are now badly outdated, as Catholic dioceses grapple with new challenges that didn't exist in the 80s. Topics that were not considered then, like greater Catholic mobility, increased cultural diversity, and structural re organization as well as the