So the Hiding Catholics are preventing Exodus from becoming
President and it's all Bush' fault.
Posted on 12/30/2013 9:35:20 AM PST by RnMomof7
......"The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life has put hard numbers on the anecdotal evidence: One out of every 10 Americans is an ex-Catholic. If they were a separate denomination, they would be the third-largest denomination in the United States, after Catholics and Baptists. One of three people who were raised Catholic no longer identifies as Catholic.........
"Thankfully, although the U.S. bishops have not supported research on people who have left the church, the Pew Center has.
Pew’s data shows that those leaving the church are not homogenous. They can be divided into two major groups: those who become unaffiliated and those who become Protestant. Almost half of those leaving the church become unaffiliated and almost half become Protestant. Only about 10 percent of ex-Catholics join non-Christian religions.
This article will focus on Catholics who have become Protestant. I am not saying that those who become unaffiliated are not important; I am leaving that discussion to another time."................
"Nor are the people becoming Protestants lazy or lax Christians. In fact, they attend worship services at a higher rate than those who remain Catholic. While 42 percent of Catholics who stay attend services weekly, 63 percent of Catholics who become Protestants go to church every week. That is a 21 percentage-point difference.
" Seventy-one percent say their faith is “very strong,” while only 35 percent and 22 percent reported that their faith was very strong when they were children and teenagers, respectively. On the other hand, only 46 percent of those who are still Catholic report their faith as “very strong” today as an adult.
(Excerpt) Read more at ncronline.org ...
>> “IMHO, the Society of Jesus has been at the forefront of undermining Catholicism since Vatican 2.” <<
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More likely since the 12th or 13th century.
The title of this thread is a joke and your opinion about the Catholic Church a bigger joke. Weren’t you on the Jimmy Swaggart’s panel the other day. He always has one guy on his discussion group that never opens his mouth except to blab on about how Catholics are not Christian.
But as long as you’re speaking of Satan, is it Satan or Jesus that is telling 98% of all blacks (protestant) to vote for Obama and 78% of all Jews.
The number of Catholics that voted for Romney dwarf any protestant denomination in the country. The only Catholic that would consider becoming a protestant are those Cafeteria catholics that never lived their faith to start with. They want to be able to do it “their way” instead of God’s way, whether that means aborting their children or “marrying” someone of the same sex. This is not possible in the Catholic Church, but alive and well in countless protestant denominations.
Have a nice day. And if you have any more jokes today, please post them. I need a good laugh.
>> “Quoting from the Fishwrap again, I see.” <<
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Who would better understand Dagon worship?
“Ex-Catholics are mostly gays and what are known as “Cafeteria Catholics” They are willing to rejoin on “their” terms”.
Exactly. Read my post above.
Meaning, those who rejoice at even liberal RCs becoming . Christ worshiping conservative evangelicals - which is an abundant number, and are likely part of the 74-79% or more who voted conservative in the recent Pres. elections, and are far more conservative than their Catholic counterparts and contend for our share common truths against cults - are devil worshipers.
And yet even Rome affirms baptized Prots as being part of the body of Christ.
Meaning consistent with Revolting cat!, the kingdom of includes devil worshippers, and the country needs more of them!
However, at least your revolting venomous opinion is consistent with so many of your past posts, and befitting the name you have chosen for yourself. Sad to say.
Why should befitting the name one chose be sad? Shouldn’t it be something to rejoice the same way that you rejoice your ugly fantasy of falling and failing Catholic Church, while worshipping (and denying it) the likes of Billy Grahams, Marjoe’s, Harold Camping? See # 122, and check an English dictionary for the meaning of the word ‘revolt’. (You do know what a ‘dictionary’ is?)
In fact there are no scriptures addressing a priesthood in the NT.
I see Kenosis has reached a parish near you.
No the outed sodomite priests end up in Nancy Pelosi’s parish.
Thousands of altar boys would argue that Rock of Gibraltar quote.
And as stated those numbers are compared to what? The US population has doubled since the 60s. Therefore, the numbers you site show a proportional reduction.
Everyone is entitled to their OWN opinion, right NKP_Vet? Yes, they are but just not their own "facts". Although you may find great comfort in the false imagining that no "true" Catholic would ever leave the church of his birth and that those who have only did so because they were ignorant and/or wanted to be free to live according their own moral codes totally ignores that GENUINE Christians can and DO leave Roman Catholicism for a more true and personal faith relationship with Jesus Christ. That they are substantially more moral and Conservative than the majority in Catholicism is a fact that is proven over and over in every objective study ever developed. Hate to burst that bubble of yours, but Roman Catholics have equal rates of abortion, divorce and extra/per-marital sex as those in the general population as well as homosexual clergy and pedophilia. As a matter of fact, in every measurable moral category, Roman Catholics do NOT demonstrate better or higher moral choices or lifestyles than other religious traditions or even the unchurched. If someone wanted to live according to their own morality (i.e., the Kennedy family, the Kerry's, the Pelousi's, etc.), they can do so while remaining right where they are in a church that blusters on record of a strict code but, for all practical purposes, gives a wink and a nod to the unChristian way of life of "her" children.
What you claim is "not possible in the Catholic Church" IS there and to deny it only shows a willful ignorance or a head buried in the sand outlook. It is laughable how such an oblivious, unaware and blissful dream world so many occupy these days.
Well I see you like reading from LIBERAL websites.
National Catholic Reporter?????????? Really???
And if your buddy wants to “marry” his partner, he has only go down to any PROTESTANT episcopal church in the country and a openly homosexual priest, will do the honors. Also Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists, all will do the honors.
How many Catholic Churches will “marry” sodomites? The answer. NONE. That immoral garbage is left up to various PROTESTANT faiths.
Not a shred of Scriptural support for the *hospital for sinners* paradigm.
The body of Christ is comprised of saints who have been redeemed by the blood of Christ and are saved.
They are not victims. They are saints with the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit to give them everything they need.
Believers in this country are such a bunch of wusses who need their hands held and to be doted on.
I don’t know how a letter Francis sends to atheists telling them to follow their conscience can be spun another way.
Another opinion based on what? At least cite a canon or council or scriptures to support your assertion.
If not your comments are merely emotional reaction.
As a white Protestant early 18th century American (United Methodist) I have nothing against other cultural or religious beliefs, but as a USA majority demographic I definitely do not want ruled by them.
I want my cultural beliefs represented at the table of justice and in Congress and in Cabinet positions and at the Ivy League universities where the candidate pool for these high level positions originates.
Perhaps more of us need to demand a seat at the table instead of being forced to ride at the back of the bus.
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