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Reply to "Christianity in Decline in America?"

Originally Posted by Not Shallow Not Slim:

http://www.christianpost.com/n...-christianity-46346/

 

That seems to be the case.

 

I could suggest reasons why Christianity is in decline, but let's hear yours first?

 

DF

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July 22, 2011

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on new survey data

profiling Catholicism:

 

All we ever hear from the wild-eyed critics of the Catholic Church,

including the dissidents within, is that the Church had better

"get with it" and change its teachings on abortion, homosexuality

and women's ordination. Yet it is precisely those religious institutions

that are the most liberal on these issues—the mainline

Protestant denominations—that are collapsing. Not so the Catholic Church.

 

Indeed, its numbers are going north while the mainline

denominations are going south.

The latest findings by the "Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership"

project, a collaborative effort with Georgetown University's

Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, are illuminating.

 

In the last 40 years, the Catholic population has increased by 75 percent;

it has grown by 50 percent since 1990. More important,

Catholic attendance at Mass is up 15 percent since 2000. And in the

last five years, contributions have increased by 14 percent.

It is also important to note that there has been a 40 percent increase

in Latinos in the Church over the past five years.

 

http://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=2194

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