[NYer]

In Latin America, they're pulling millions of faithful away from the Catholic Church.

In so doing, they ignore the very scripture they proclaim:

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

[Jim Noble]

Mark 9:38-40. It's right in the Book.

[MeganC]

My church congregation supports missionaries in Honduras who over the past five years have built a high school, an elementary school, a health clinic, and now they’re raising funds to build a hospital. They hold church services in the school’s cafeterias as opposed to building a church.

They’ve also seen their congregations grow from less than twenty people five years ago to now over ten thousand. And every one of those people was Catholic five years ago. The Catholic church has more or less abandoned Honduras and the evangelicals are coming in unopposed to meet the physical, educational, and spiriritual needs of these people.

[Praxeologue]

converts from Catholicism to the "evangelical" communities are not drawn by greater leniency on the matters of abortion or homosexuality.

The reality is the opposite. Those most resolute in opposing abortion and marriage between persons of the same-sex are found among the neo-Protestants, not among the Catholics.

The people want the Bible's teaching, not flexibility.

[Coleus]

does that mean he’s “saved”?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

"The converts to the "evangelical" communities turn out, in fact, to be much more dynamic in propagating the Christian faith. And there is also a difference in helping the poor. While the Catholics assist them and that's it, the "evangelicals" are not only more active in works of charity, but also do not miss the opportunity to preach the Christian faith to the poor."

Wow. They are doing what Christ commanded. And yet it isn't celebrated in Rome. Don't see that in the NT Church.

[Terry L Smith]

So, this pope guy is sure acting like a friendly BORG to the Pentecostals, who i have heard, call him the representative of satan on earth.

IF there is any sort of cooperation and hand shaking between these two groups, look out.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

"I tried to swim the Tiber, but I was blocked by millions of Hispanic Christians swimming the other way! I could almost walk across the Tiber on their backs."

[Alex Murphy]

With the mastery for which it is known all over the world, the Washington-based Pew Research Center has conducted a survey on a massive scale that gives substance to a fact that was already known in general terms, the startling decline of Catholic membership in the Latin American subcontinent....Today the proportion of Catholics is 23 points lower, at 69 percent of the population. The negative record belongs to Honduras, where Catholics have dropped to under half, from 94 to 46 percent. To get an idea of how sharp the decline has been, it should be enough to think that it has taken place entirely within the time span of the episcopal ministry of Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, archbishop of Tegucigalpa and coordinator of the eight cardinals called by Pope Francis to assist him in the governance of the universal Church.

The collapse in the number of Catholics has been accompanied everywhere by the exuberant growth of "evangelical" and Pentecostal Christians, of Protestant descent. This was known too, but the Pew Research Center has highlighted that those who are passing from one membership to another are not usually the most lukewarm in their faith, but the most fervent. The converts to the "evangelical" communities turn out, in fact, to be much more dynamic in propagating the Christian faith. And there is also a difference in helping the poor. While the Catholics assist them and that's it, the "evangelicals" are not only more active in works of charity, but also do not miss the opportunity to preach the Christian faith to the poor.

Ping to some interesting statistics, in light of an earlier conversation.

[NKP_Vet]

Francis is the only pope in 2,000 years that has said there is no need in conversion to the Catholic faith. No kidding. Pope Nice just wants to “get along” and not cause any waves so he preaches heretical nonsense. If there is no reason to convert why have a Catholic Church, which was built on the Truth of the Gospel. The One, True, Apostolic faith. Francis has a hard time coming to grips with that.

[Salvation]

**The converts to the “evangelical” communities turn out, in fact, to be much more dynamic in propagating the Christian faith. And there is also a difference in helping the poor. While the Catholics assist them and that’s it, the “evangelicals” are not only more active in works of charity, but also do not miss the opportunity to preach the Christian faith to the poor.**

Catholics are learning from these evangelicals.

[SumProVita]

I think Sandro needs our prayers.