Posted on 04/24/2014 6:37:00 PM PDT by Gamecock
We sure are. 876,708 which includes baptisms and adult converts for 2012 the last year we have data. Just this week the Roman Catholic Church brought in 13,288 during Easter in the major Archdiocese around the nation. This figure doesn’t include those who converted who attend the smaller parishes. We’re getting good returns on our investments.
I am a Christian. Go ahead and attack me but not the wealth of churches. That tells me all I need to know.
Well I am glad to hear that. It is good news. If that wealth is helping do all that then by all means go get em.
for the record, check out these mega churchs and check out the Mormon Tabernacle.....
you seem to forget that much of the Vatican is of huge historical value....
or I guess you would advocate tearing down the Leaning tower of Pisa to plant corn for the poor?
Reverend is the correct term. Except we always addressed them as Father.
Jesus had no where to lay His head.
What's with the extravagant wealth of the Vatican to begin with?
Where did Jesus ever justify that?
Then what business is it of Catholics what non-Catholic churches and mega churches and pastors do?
And yet there's no shortage of opinion from Catholics themselves about those outside Catholicism.
Why don't Catholics practice what they preach? Or is it *Rules for thee but not for me*?
THAT's what I'm wondering about.
Thanks for the ping; post. Hang the scumbags after all of their assets are seized. SHEESH!
He should have become a bishop first. Preferably archbishop of Milwaukee. Then he could have stolen $450,000 to give to his boyfriend.
All Catholic priests, except Monsignors, are called “Father” in the second or third person. “Is Fr. Smith home?” “Hi, Fr. Smith.”
In the third person, they are also called, “Reverend,” as in “The Reverend John Smith, pastor of Saint Mary’s Church.”
Catholics do not speak of a priest as “the reverend,” as in “is the reverend in his office?”
Catholics speak of “the pastor,” as in “the pastor ripped out our beautiful high altar,” but they do not say, “Pastor Smith gave a beautiful sermon.”
Yes.
Poor suckers...Apparently to pay for the prayers to get someone out of purgatory...What a racket...
Has anyone ever found Luther's dogma of "the Bible ALONE" in the Bible?
It's all over the bible...That why people who read the bible, know it...
You got that right!
Last night at my parish there was a special parish finacial issues meeting and the guy that heads the parish finacial commitee, talked about how the archdiocese keeps a close eye on finacial budgets of all the parishes in the archdiocese. I wonder if the diocese this parish was in had any structure at all.
Speaking about “rackets”, the BIBLE ALONE thing believed by Luther is a BIG RACKET in itself.
Please provide the source for that statement.
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This should make your day:
There has been an increase in converts:
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