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To: Gamecock
According to NCC the RC Church is growing, Southern baptists and mainline protestants are declining. Mormons are growing as is Assembly of God. Those hordes of catholics joining protestant churches are hidden indeed.
6 posted on 05/17/2012 5:54:52 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

While Islam is the fastest growing, and Nones more so than Christians: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html#Sec2


33 posted on 05/17/2012 9:00:09 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a damned+morally destitute sinner,+trust Him to forgive+save you,+live....)
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To: hinckley buzzard; Gamecock

If by the “church” means the building and the priest, then Catholics are probably not broadly well fed, when they attend only weekly on Sundays. If they were poorly catechized growing up then yes, they are probably found spiritually wanting today.

Sundays in the evangelical churches are rousing, spiritually experiential, with soaring senses, so a poorly fed Catholic ex is comforted there in his own relationship with his God.

On the other hand, for all her flaws and spiritless priests giving boring homilies, there she is, still standing. Christ’s Church. He is there within her, in His tabernacle to be consumed, transferred from the hands of the hands, of the hands of the Apostles themselves to my lips. Beating that? Just impossible, IMHO.

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34 posted on 05/17/2012 9:11:23 PM PDT by RitaOK (ABR & ABO Few are unafraid, but I thank God for the few. We are the resistance.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

And I understand that Islam is the fastest-growing “faith” in America now. Pretty terrifying.


551 posted on 05/28/2012 4:12:52 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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