I’m sorry, I attend Catholic Mass every week, and I just don’t see it.
The biggest threat to the Church IMO is the near absolute dearth of young people. Not that the Church is doing much to help itself in that regard.
The few who do show up just started getting quizzical “WTH?” looks on their faces when we went to the new Missal.
I have contacts in Latin American countries who tell me the flow is in the opposite direction. Youth in traditionally Catholic countries are flocking to Evangelical churches in droves.
Somehow the pictures of the kids with the Pope speak loudly.
These are the "fruits" of evangelicals who have descended on So. America in droves. However, sometimes, despite their good intentions, these missionary missions backfire.
One day we drove through a small village where I counted three Pentecostal churches on one block. Before the arrival of protestantism, this town was united in its Catholicism. The Catholic parish used to be the center of the community, but now there were multitudes of competing Protestant churches, each promoting its particular brand of evangelicalism: Church of Christ, Presbyterian, non-denominational, Assemblies of God, Mennonite Brethren, and Baptists of every conceivable stripe were all there, scratching around for converts, and reminding their flocks that all the other groups were wrong (especially, of course, the Catholics).
Read the conversion story of Kristine Franklin
The evangelical missionaries ignore scripture:
Thus I aspire to proclaim the gospel not where Christ has already been named, so that I do not build on another's foundation, but as it is written: "Those who have never been told of him shall see, and those who have never heard of him shall understand."
Romans 15:20-21
You want more young people to come to your parish?
Give a copy of this book to your pastor and parish council: http://www.amazon.com/Rebuilt-Awakening-Faithful-Reaching-Making/dp/1594713863/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374847856&sr=8-1&keywords=rebuilt
I’m not saying I agree with everything in the book, but it is a great conversation starter to say the least.