[Polycarp]

World Over Live on EWTN featured Philip Jenkins, the author of "Anti-Catholicism - the last acceptible prejudice"

Jenkins is very credible in that he is not even a Catholic himself.

[american colleen]

Thanks poly - I meant to include that in my post. It is a tribute that Jenkins is not Catholic and therefore can stand apart and do the research from a removed point.

The show mentioned his other book - something like "the new face of Christianity" or "the coming Christianity" - which also sounded interesting. He says that Christianity (particularly Catholicism) is booming in southern parts of the world and that in 50 years only 1 in 5 Catholics will be white. He also says that "southern" Catholicism is much more orthodox and so this will have profound changes for us here in the USA. Gives me hope although I most likely won't be around to see it (I'll be 94 and in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank trying to light a cigarette).