Index of Leading Catholic Indicators

LOL. I may have a solution for you. They are nearly 9 and 6, respectively. The older wants a smaller family. Under 10: the younger doesn't understand why the older is so limited in his imagination.

8 and 5. Hmmmm....

My oldest wants six kids. She's pretty set on it. No more, no less. The youngest said, "You can have twenty babies and I'll have ten babies, then we'll have thirty babies!" I couldn't get a straight answer out of her though as to why her sister was going to have ten more babies than her, although I think she's figured out that twenty babies might require some work. 8-)

Again, in all areas there has been a dramatic decline. In 1965 there were 1.3 million infant baptisms, in 2002 there were 1 million. (In the same period the number of Catholics in the United States rose from 45 million to 65 million.) In 1965 there were 126,000 adult baptisms - converts - in 2002 there were 80,000. In 1965 there were 352,000 Catholic marriages, in 2002 there were 256,000. In 1968 there were 338 annulments, in 2002 there were 50,000.

The numbers of Infant Baptism divided by the number of Marriages imply a long term trend of ~4 children per Catholic family. I find the steadiness of that figure interesting with respect to the use of Birth Control by Catholics. Traditionally moralists used to set 4 children as a minimum number to strive towards in marriage.

What do ya think?

I think that Vatican II was the work of "liberals" in the worst sense of the word who were embarrassed to be part of a medieval institution like the Catholic Church when they got together with their liberal protestant and Jewish friends at the university. They were determined to remake the Church in their own image, what we see today in the Anglican communion, which is generally just one step ahead of the liberal Catholics, but the liberal Catholics are always determined to catch up.

They succeeded in setting in place a never-ending "process" by which, like a river, you never set foot in the same church twice. This process is still going on, and it is supported by 100% of the hierarchy including the pope most of all. As Catholics who wish to defend the faith, our job is to remind fellow Catholics again and again of the reality of the true unchanging faith which was handed down by the apostles and preserved for almost 2000 years.

The "Index of Leading Catholic Indicators" reported on in this article proves statistically the manifest and undeniable fact that the Church is suffering from a terminal illness and that it can never improve as long as this "process" continues.

Excellent article provides the statistical documentation regarding the true situation in the Church.

A person would have to be a moron not to comprehend....with first hand observation....the "true (and uncorrectable) situation in the Church."

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