Catholic Renaissance?

We pass this along from Zorak. We haven't verified the statistics, but needless to say, the average person--Catholic and non-Catholic--would find this highly surprising. But if people are joining the Catholic Church in record numbers, why are the pews half empty? Poor adult instruction? Are they just joining for the girls?

23,000 more adults have entered the Church every year than did in 1960:

An average 163,000 adults every year between 1994 and 2003. That's 1.635 million adult converts in only ten years.

If adult converts to Catholicism from those 10 years alone were a denomination, we would be the 16th largest in America, right behind the Episcopalians and ahead of the Churches of Christ and the Greek Orthodox.