It’s interesting the kinds of Organizations (are they called Fraternal Organizations? I don’t know) that are in the Catholic Church but some were very popular in the past, like Legion of Mary (established in Ireland I am rather certain) or Holy Name Society, the latter I’ve heard is really low on popularity according to our pastor. The Knights of Columbus are probably relatively popular but I doubt if like in the old days. Bless this woman I know, in the last 2 years or so we did Legion of Mary door to door (like the Mormons do!) prosyletizing and all of the other things that organization does. Heck, in places like India and Singapore, I think they are still popular. But unfortunately, most of these kinds of organizations are not what they once were. Some day!
That’s why too, when figures are tossed out like 52 percent of Catholics supported Obama, heck, the Pew Foundation did a survey that only a quarter of those calling themselves Catholic go to Mass every week. That is a figure of around 25 percent of the 60-65 million Catholics in the US.
I wanted to add on, now that I thought of it, what we did for the Legion of Mary was not so much as prosyletizing the word that came to my mind late last night but I guess it was evangelizing.
We would take a number of Church bulletins with us and then more or less, knock on a door and give one out and invite people to go to Mass if they were Catholics. Maybe in a few instances we would give out Rosaries as well.
Very good things, I need to do such kinds of things again.