It remains to be seen just who the Catholic Church will choose as Pope for the future. Will their choice follow the resolute stature and honesty of John Paul? Will the American Catholic Church clean up its act and turn around?? Church attendance in America on all levels is way down. The road America follows depends on what happens to our national value system.
"While the mainstream Protestant churches shrink, the more orthodox and militant churches that make demands upon their flocks to live by Christian truths are attracting converts."
Praise the Lord I see a showdown between traditional Christianity and both militant Islam and liberal christianity; if liberal christians had to face down islam we would all be reading the Koran
Church attendance is down in all the major, affluent countries. Where secularism reigns, there is no need for God until ... disaster, or worse, strikes!
During John Paul II's pontificate,the number of catholics grew from 750 million to 1.1 billion, predominantly in those areas of the world that suffer from oppression.