[Brian Kopp DPM]

and the Catholic Church wonders why they're losing membership at a breakneck pace

Wishful thinking...

Catholics draw new converts

By PATTI BROWN Register Correspondent 03/31/2002

More than 187,000 adult Americans became Catholics Saturday evening - including 1,400 Iowans - as the church continued to grow despite a sex scandal and dwindling numbers of priests and nuns.

The Roman Catholic Church, whose members make up nearly 25 percent of the U.S. population, is growing faster than any other major Christian denomination. The number of converts to Catholicism has risen each year since the mid-1990s.

[Khepera]

is growing faster than any other major Christian denomination.

What do you think is the major influence here?

[history_matters]

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[Torie]

What is the percentage of the population who are non lapsed Catholics as opposed to counting all those who were baptized? The formal Catholic percentage has been about the same since I was born 51 years ago. Only Hispanic immigration has kept it there. You see health were I suspect there is anemia. Granted, that is true with most mainline denominations, and in many ways Catholicism fits into that category. No, I am not a fundamentalist Protestant. I am not religious, but interested in religion.

[Antoninus]

The Roman Catholic Church, whose members make up nearly 25 percent of the U.S. population, is growing faster than any other major Christian denomination. The number of converts to Catholicism has risen each year since the mid-1990s.

Why is that, I wonder? I'm convinved that this outbreak of scandal is the "Battle of the Bulge" for the aging Gaystapo 5th Column within the Church. With the rise of EWTN, orthodox new orders, the comeback of the Latin mass, and tons of new conservative seminarians, they're banking it all on a single massive attack to try to break up the traditionalist offensive.

Luckily for us, God will clear the rough weather and dry up their fuel... I wonder who our Patton will be who liberates Bastogne ... I mean Boston.

[RightOnline]

Don't get me wrong, Doc. I have tremendous respect for the Catholic Church. It sickens me to see what's been happening to her.

With that said, I'd have to say that the stats you quoted.....................well, let's just say that I'd find those numbers encouraging, but I don't buy them for a second. No offense, but that just flies in the face of reality. Evangelical churches are clearly the fastest growing, not only here in the States but throughout the Christian world. My point isn't to put one down or elevate another; I base this on longtime observation.