The truth is that more than 50% of Catholics sleep in on Sunday and only go to mass on holidays or to get the baby baptized .
That in spite of the church law that says they are hell bound for making that decision.
Your sting of links does not change that
You are absolutely right. But with how full my parish is for each Mass offered each weekend(6 English Masses and 1 Spanish Mass), I'm not sure what we'd do if all the registered families decided to show up each weekend, much less all of the Catholics who aren't registered members but who live in within the parish boundaries.
We'd probably have to start up a new capital campaign and expand the church...again.
And, by the way, I am not saying that ALL parishes are that way. (i.e., I have no doubt that you would have little or no problem finding articles that counterdict my statement...so don't bother).
How come you won’t answer my question? How do you know the Bible is the inspired Word of God?
"Roman Catholics, the largest U.S. church with a reported 69 million members, start counting baptized infants as members and often don’t remove people until they die. Most membership surveys don’t actually count who’s in the pews on Sunday. To be disenrolled, Catholics must write a bishop to ask that their baptisms be revoked..."
"...The Catholic understanding of membership is that a person becomes a member upon baptism and remains a member for life," Gautier said. "Whether you show up at church or not is not what determines whether you're a member."