Posted on 04/23/2017 5:36:14 AM PDT by vladimir998
Researcher says that, if trends continue, more Catholics than Presbyterians will be in church on Sunday
The Catholic Church is likely to become the largest churchgoing denomination in Scotland.
Figures from the 2016 Scottish Church Census reveal that the Catholic Church and Church of Scotland both make up 35 per cent of the churchgoing population, but that the Catholic proportion is expanding.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
Could be worse. Could be iz slime like in France - ore even London.
As the descendant of hardshell Presbyterians (so to speak) from Northern Ireland, I can’t help feeling a little sad at the decline of the Ould Kirk.
The original rednecks. The wearing of a red collar vs. white denoting Presbyterian rectors and some of their parishioners also wore red scarfs. Not to mention having a wee crac (joke) leading to those doing so being called crackers.
Tallest midget in this case. Both churches have about 140,000 attending out of a population of 5,000,000.Attendance sounds comparable to Orthodox churches during Soviet era.
Yes, no matter how bad things get, we Scotch-Irish have a bad joke to make.
Queen Mary, you are dead but not forgotten. We will undo the work of Henry even if it takes half a millennium. And even if we have to give England to the Muslims.
You beat me to the punch. Additionally, I’d be willing to be the demographics show a crash in both parishioners and priests over the next fifteen years.
Hoot mon, with all the mackerel snappers about in the land of ye tartans, can the lads be doin’ a wee bit of “Immaculate Mary” on the bagpipes, now?
The McKowalski’s and the McCaporelli’s would love it!
;^)
Good point. Sad.
LOL!
Kudos to folks of any religious persuasion who make a faith commitment. Get your butt in the pews!
Nice, but they need to worry about the muzzies who breed like rabbits.
**The report found 135,600 weekly Catholic Mass attenders compared to 136,910 attending Church of Scotland services. The figures also showed a total of 389,510 weekly attenders of churches of any denomination.**
BTTT!
From the article - “Only nine per cent of the Scottish population are now churchgoers.”
Scotland needs to be reevangelized for Christ - Including Presbyterians and Catholics and atheists.
Church attendance does not equal salvation.
Half Scotland doesn’t believe in God anymore.
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