All the white people - who overwhelmingly make up the Catholic population - have left.
It is civilization itself that is collapsing, and not just in Baltimore.
The Church should be boldly going in the opposite direction of our post-modern, existentialist, neo-marxist society.
Instead, its much of the Church is flowing right along with with the sewage.
A few years back, I went to my sister’s wedding at a Catholic Church in Baltimore.
I was so amazed at the goods for sale in the narthex !
Wall to wall trinkets, statues, books, and who knows what other Roman Catholic paraphernalia was for sale just outside the chapel, mere inches from the “bless yourself” holy water sponge.
Somebody should turn over the tables.
Luke 18:8b “ But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?”
I wonder if some of the churches are in the process of being converted to mosques? Down, down this country goes swirling around the drain at an ever increasing speed.
The process of renewal under an ill-tempered and thuggish modernist, Leftist pope is proving to be a disaster for the Catholic Church.
In Baltimore the practicing Christians are pretty evenly split between Evangelical, Mainline Protestants, Historically Black Protestants and Roman Catholics. I imagine they all share some similar decline in the number of active congregations.
Baltimore’s population peaked in 1950 at about 900,000. In 2020 it was something below 600,000. What growth there has been in the Metro-Balitmore area has been in the surrouding suburbs.
Texas has an interesting law regarding cities, their growth and their suburbs. It is based on a view of the Texas legislature at one time about “protecting” the “core” of metropolitan areas. The “core” city can reach out an absorb a nearby suburb into its jurisdiction. The idea was about “protecting” the tax base of the “core”, that the tax base could not “flee to the suburbs”.
In Baltimore the practicing Christians are pretty evenly split between Evangelical, Mainline Protestants, Historically Black Protestants and Roman Catholics. I imagine they all share some similar decline in the number of active congregations.
Baltimore’s population peaked in 1950 at about 900,000. In 2020 it was something below 600,000. What growth there has been in the Metro-Balitmore area has been in the surrouding suburbs.
Texas has an interesting law regarding cities, their growth and their suburbs. It is based on a view of the Texas legislature at one time about “protecting” the “core” of metropolitan areas. The “core” city can reach out an absorb a nearby suburb into its jurisdiction. The idea was about “protecting” the tax base of the “core”, that the tax base could not “flee to the suburbs”.
Nobody is inspired to go to a church that's "woke".
Time to go back to their roots.
Lose the hell bound pope for starters.
It hasn't for 62 years and the result is the disaster we have now.
What happens when Christian justice and charity are replaced by marxist social justice.
It’s a “small tent” mentality that shrinks the church to fit the congregation of elites rather than engaging the hard work of growing the Church to save sinners.
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die.
I stopped outside a church house where the citizens like to sit
They say they want the kingdom
But they don’t want God in it
- Johnny Cash singing U2’s “The Wanderer”
Too many molestation scandals. Boston gets a lot of the attention, but plenty in Baltimore too. Eventually that takes hold, people don’t want to trust a church that actively allows that stuff. They want to know their kids are safe. And of course the ones that weren’t they usually leave.