[marshmallow]

Yet people are leaving the Church in droves: in 2015, a total of 181,925 people departed.

We are now "accompanying" these people......< /sarcasm>

("Accompany"= politically correct buzzword of the moment)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Not to worry...those churches will make nice mosques, just like Hagia Sofia. Then they’ll be filled to the brim with the faithful.

[PIF]

Germany will never recover form the horrendous losses it suffered in WWI and WW II ...

[Parmy]

People are leaving IMHO because the Catholic church is providing no clear message. Everything is touchy-feely, lovey-dovey and hopey-changey.

Couple all of that with the pedofelia and homosexuality of the clergy, is it any wonder?

[butlerweave]

The empty Churches will not go to waste ,the Muslims need Mosques

[Katya]

This has been happening for a while... I have Catholic relatives who have left the church. They didn’t leave because they’re no longer Catholic... but because they couldn’t afford the government enforced and extracted Tithing that comes directly out of your paycheck. In order to avoid paying... you have to officially leave the church.
Government has a tendency to kill everything...

[Moltke]

Yet people are leaving the Church in droves: in 2015, a total of 181,925 people departed.

Both the Catholic and Protestant churches are big time profiteers of the ...uh... "refugee" situation. They are raking in billions for all kinds of "social" services. People are pi$$ed off and say "no thanks, good bye".

[marron]

Europe is a mission field. Hoping baptisms will outnumber funerals is not a plan.

[MuttTheHoople]

Germany's problem is the fact their people think they're better than everybody else. This Sense of Superiority is ironic, since until they came into contact with the Romans and later christian Missionaries, Germans were illiterate savages that worshipped something just barely above Animism.

Christianity began declining in Germany when its top theologians began straying from the supremacy of Jesus Christ and embracing Humanism, ie, that Man can be perfected on his own without the need for a Savior.

This eventually degenerated into anti-Christian thinkers like Nietzche. Hitler and the Nazis were simply the culmination of 100 years of godless thinking.

Now, Germany has doubled down on stupid, by replacing 18 million Jews in Europe with 20 million Muslims. They replaced 3000 years of art, culture, medicine, Philosophy, theology, and Intellect, with nothing better than semi-literate day-laborers (if that).

For Germany to regain its moral stature, its people need to come to the Cross in abject humility and repentance.

[piusv]

The new “springtime”..... /s

[panzerkamphwageneinz]

NO ONE wants to belong to a church that doesn’t believe in what the church teaches.

[Salvation]

Are the German Bishops getting the message that something is wrong?

I doubt it for some of them.