[Alex Murphy]

Statistics published by the German episcopate tell it all: in 2010 over 180,000 Germans left the Church while only 170,000 were baptised. Also, the number of vocations has been dwindling: in 2009, 120 candidates entered the seminary; a year later there were just 79 of them. Similar trends are observed in countries like Spain or Ireland, once considered Europe’s Catholic vanguard.

Ping for later
The Incredible Shrinking Catholic Church [Kenneth C. Jones, 2003]
The Incredible Shrinking Catholic Church [Paul Gorell, 2009]

[SumProVita]

The Church is being purified. Are you ready for its new age of evangelization and growth?

;-))))))))))

[matginzac]

Nah, when the you-know-what starts hitting the fan, they all come back...

[The Great RJ]

It will take a long time to purge the memory of the decades of sexual abuse that plagued the Church and especially that this abuse was knowingly covered up by Church officials.

[Mat_Helm]

Pope oversees a more faithful Church.

[Cronos]

Oh, so your group is overjoyed? Well, the Mormons are also decreasing.

[LadyDoc]

yeah, so rich Germans are leaving the church. But that doesn’t mean the church is “dwindling”...it means that the writer is racist and doesn’t consider African or Asian or South Americans who belong to the Catholic church as Christians.

[Salvation]

And mu church is busing out all over and we are building a new church.

I wonder about the sources of some of these facts.