"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..."Related threads:
....it is possible, for example, to be born Catholic, married Methodist, die Lutheran and still be listed as a member of the 1 billion-member Roman Catholic Church....
"...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."
-- from the thread When It Comes to Church Membership Numbers, the Devil's in the Details
I understand why they left and applaud them for doing so if they’ve found a church that is more to their liking.
I understand why they left and applaud them for doing so if they’ve found a church that is more to their liking.
It is for that reason that Pope Benedict XVI stated, at the beginning of his Papacy, that one of the most important things he could direct would be the re-evangelization of Europe. He'd seen the results of the 'modernization' of the Church, one of which was the sexual abuse of young people by priests who had lost their Faith.
I opened this thread because of your title. I’d never read the Catholic Church named as such hence went to the link and discovered the correct title which is:-
“Number of Austrian Catholics leaving church increase to a record high since 1945”
Please request the moderator to correct it or would you like me to do so?
Nothing about **Austrian Catholic church exits increase to a record high since 1945** Why do you change the titles on articles? Another thing that I believe I already posted...there is no such thing as an Austrian Catholic Church. Please post the correct titles, Alex.