The fact is that within cities all over the world, the drop has been across the board away from “organized religion”. In some cases, there is poaching by other religions who prey on those who are lonely or uneducated in Catholicism.
Nothing new under the sun. Just read your Bible, it’s all there.
Jvette, I'm Baptist so I don't really need to be told to read the Bible. I find humerous that Catholics think protestants who share their faith with them are "poaching" as you call it. May I ask, do you know what Catholics call themselves when they try to recrute protestants into the ranks of Rome?
Baptists are not out in the street going door to door.
A lot of movement between Christian religions is done so through marriage because of a desire to raise the children in a home where both parents practice the same faith.
A Catholic who has a true and real faith, not one just handed down will not leave the church.
The “poaching” is especially prevalent in the poorest of countries in Latin America.
My point about the Bible is that every human condition and everything one wants to know about human nature is in there. Nothing new, not a thing.
If the Catholic church is THE church, it will survive, just as Jesus promised, so these things don’t worry me.