Posted on 04/15/2024 6:51:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
All the white people - who overwhelmingly make up the Catholic population - have left.
It is civilization itself that is collapsing, and not just in Baltimore.
With the help of the false pope.
The Church should be boldly going in the opposite direction of our post-modern, existentialist, neo-marxist society.
Instead, its much of the Church is flowing right along with with the sewage.
A few years back, I went to my sister’s wedding at a Catholic Church in Baltimore.
I was so amazed at the goods for sale in the narthex !
Wall to wall trinkets, statues, books, and who knows what other Roman Catholic paraphernalia was for sale just outside the chapel, mere inches from the “bless yourself” holy water sponge.
Somebody should turn over the tables.
Luke 18:8b “ But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?”
So the mexicans haven’t replaced the fleeing whites?
Most of them aren’t Catholics. JWs or a type of evangeical.
In the greater Baltimore area, it's more Central Americans. But no, they have not replaced the fleeing whites.
Which parish was it with all the items for sale?
It’s a good thing that St. Vincent de Paul will be closing. A very good thing.
Interesting. Where I am, the majority are Catholic.
I wonder if some of the churches are in the process of being converted to mosques? Down, down this country goes swirling around the drain at an ever increasing speed.
White people may not comprise most Catholic churchgoers, but they do comprise the vast majority of church contributors.
Do you hve data?
The process of renewal under an ill-tempered and thuggish modernist, Leftist pope is proving to be a disaster for the Catholic Church.
In Baltimore the practicing Christians are pretty evenly split between Evangelical, Mainline Protestants, Historically Black Protestants and Roman Catholics. I imagine they all share some similar decline in the number of active congregations.
Baltimore’s population peaked in 1950 at about 900,000. In 2020 it was something below 600,000. What growth there has been in the Metro-Balitmore area has been in the surrouding suburbs.
Texas has an interesting law regarding cities, their growth and their suburbs. It is based on a view of the Texas legislature at one time about “protecting” the “core” of metropolitan areas. The “core” city can reach out an absorb a nearby suburb into its jurisdiction. The idea was about “protecting” the tax base of the “core”, that the tax base could not “flee to the suburbs”.
In Baltimore the practicing Christians are pretty evenly split between Evangelical, Mainline Protestants, Historically Black Protestants and Roman Catholics. I imagine they all share some similar decline in the number of active congregations.
Baltimore’s population peaked in 1950 at about 900,000. In 2020 it was something below 600,000. What growth there has been in the Metro-Balitmore area has been in the surrouding suburbs.
Texas has an interesting law regarding cities, their growth and their suburbs. It is based on a view of the Texas legislature at one time about “protecting” the “core” of metropolitan areas. The “core” city can reach out an absorb a nearby suburb into its jurisdiction. The idea was about “protecting” the tax base of the “core”, that the tax base could not “flee to the suburbs”.
Nobody is inspired to go to a church that's "woke".
Time to go back to their roots.
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