Number of Austrian Catholics leaving church increase to a record high since 1945

Austrian law forces residents registered as followers of most recognized religions to pay a small percentage of their earnings toward support of their churches or temples.

"Roman Catholics, the largest U.S. church with a reported 69 million members, start counting baptized infants as members and often don’t remove people until they die. Most membership surveys don’t actually count who’s in the pews on Sunday. To be disenrolled, Catholics must write a bishop to ask that their baptisms be revoked..."
....it is possible, for example, to be born Catholic, married Methodist, die Lutheran and still be listed as a member of the 1 billion-member Roman Catholic Church....
"...The Catholic understanding of membership is that a person becomes a member upon baptism and remains a member for life," Gautier said. "Whether you show up at church or not is not what determines whether you're a member."
-- from the thread When It Comes to Church Membership Numbers, the Devil's in the Details

I understand why they left and applaud them for doing so if they’ve found a church that is more to their liking.

Well, at least they're being honest. Many Catholics in Europe haven't darkened the doors of a church for years. The priest abuse scandal is simply a convenient excuse to formalize that separation.

It is for that reason that Pope Benedict XVI stated, at the beginning of his Papacy, that one of the most important things he could direct would be the re-evangelization of Europe. He'd seen the results of the 'modernization' of the Church, one of which was the sexual abuse of young people by priests who had lost their Faith.

I opened this thread because of your title. I’d never read the Catholic Church named as such hence went to the link and discovered the correct title which is:-

“Number of Austrian Catholics leaving church increase to a record high since 1945”

Please request the moderator to correct it or would you like me to do so?

I opened this thread because of your title. I’d never read the Catholic Church named as such hence went to the link and discovered the correct title....Please request the moderator to correct it or would you like me to do so?

At the time I posted the thread, the article was comprised of five sentences, and Austrian Catholic church exits increase to a record high since 1945 was the exact title given at the source. I have no plans on repeatedly monitoring the link throughout the month, and keep the thread's headline wording current with the original, in a vain attempt to please (if I'm lucky) one FReeper.

I would think you would be praying for them instead.

You are right. There is no Austrian Catholic Church. Here's a chart to educate our protestant brothers and sisters.

RITE	CHURCHES THAT USE THIS RITE	ORIGINAL LITURGICAL LANGUAGE	PATRIARCH	POINT OF ORIGIN
1.ROMAN	All Roman Catholics	Latin	Bishop of Rome	Rome
MOZARABIC	Archdiocese of Toledo Spain	Latin	Bishop of Rome	Spain
AMBROSIAN	Archdiocese of Milan, Italy	Latin	Bishop of Rome	Milan
BRAGAN	Archdiocese of Braga, Portugal	Latin	Bishop of Rome	Braga
DOMINICAN	Dominican Priests	Latin	Bishop of Rome	St. Dominic
CARMELITE	Carmelite Priests	Latin	Bishop of Rome	St. Berthold
CARTHUSIANS	Carthusian Priests	Latin	Bishop of Rome	St. Bruno
2. BYZANTINE	Belarussian	Old Slavonic		Belarussia
	Bulgarian	Old Slavonic	Apostolic Exarch for Catholics of the Byzantine-Slav rite in Bulgaria	Bulgaria
	Croatian	Old Slavonic	Bishop of Kricevci	Croatia
	Greek	Greek	Apostolic Exarch for Catholics of the Byzantine rite in Greece	Greece
	Hungarian	Greek	Bishop of Hajdudorog, Apostolic Administrator of Miskolc	Hungary
	Italo-Albanian	Greek	Local Latin Bishop	Italy
	Melkite	Greek	Melkite Greek Patriarch of Damascus	Syria/Lebanon/Israel
	Romanian	Romanian	Archbishop of Fagaras and Alba Julia	Romania
	Russian	Old Slavonic	Apostolic Exarch in Russia	Russia
	Ruthenian	Old Slavonic	Bishop of Mukacevo of the Byzantines	Ukrania
	Slovakian	Old Slavonic	Bishop of Presov of Catholics of the Byzantine rite	Slovakia
	Ukrainian	Old Slavonic	Major Archbishop of Lviv of the Ukranians	Ukrania
3.ALEXANDRIAN	Coptic	Coptic	Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts	Egypt
	Ethiopian	Ge'ez	Archbishop of Addis Ababa of the Ethiopians	Ethiopia/Somalia
4. SYRIAC	Syriac		Syriac Patriarch of Antioch	Syria
	Malankarese	West Syriac	Metropolitan of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankarese	India
5. ARMENIAN	Armenian	Classical Armenian	Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians	Armenia
6. MARONITE	Maronite	Aramaic	Maronite Patriarch of Antioch	Lebanon
7. CHALDEAN	Chaldean	Syriac	Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans	Iraq
	Malabar	Syriac	Major Archbishop of the Malabar rite	India

Published by The Minnesota St. Thomas More Chapter of Catholics United for the Faith, March/April 2000.

Correct Title -

“Number of Austrian Catholics leaving church increase to a record high since 1945”

“But critics contend there’s still much to be done. The Vienna-based lay organization “We Are Church” says church leaders are blocking reforms and avoiding dialogue over issues the church considers controversial.”

You’re right Salvation there is no such Church. Methinks it was the “We Are Church” people who did the manipulation if what Alex said was correct. These cino’s/marxists/humanists/homosexuals/pro-abortionists/pro-female priests/ etc people want to reform the Church into their own image and likeness. Spreading their antics helps them which is why the AP wrote the story in the first place. And so the battle continues.

PS: The heading “Austrian Catholic Church” was the red flag as it’s what “We Are Church” like to call it - probably reminds them of the facade “Chinese Catholic Church”.

Actual title: Number of Austrian Catholics leaving church increase to a record high since 1945

Nothing about **Austrian Catholic church exits increase to a record high since 1945** Why do you change the titles on articles? Another thing that I believe I already posted...there is no such thing as an Austrian Catholic Church. Please post the correct titles, Alex.