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To: Legatus

What is your take on why people are fleeing the church?


3 posted on 04/07/2015 3:23:07 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone
As a Catholic I see the pandering to minorities that is mostly at the expense of the majority. The minorities, generally, don't support the church. I see the pandering to homosexuals with no effort to combat the rise of that life-style with the teaching in the Bible.

I see emphasis from the bishops on social justice, which is a major tenant of Marxism. I see additional emphasis on income equality/inequality with no emphasis on the work ethic. I see nothing being done to admonish illegitimacy.

I could go on.

5 posted on 04/07/2015 3:30:38 PM PDT by Parmy
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What is your take on why people are fleeing the church?

That's a question with a very long answer, I'll try to be brief. I believe the "collapse" started when Rome changed the rites surrounding the Sacraments. People had been led along believing that the Church never changes and then almost overnight everything was changed. Then (and this is where I put on my tin foil hat) homosexuals infiltrated the clergy in massive numbers and basically just destroyed everything from within.

It's a lot more complex than just that, but I think those two things contributed more than anything else. There was also the birth control kerfuffle, the people who were happy with the changes expected (and were led to expect) that the Church would change its teaching on birth control as well. There was a backlash when that didn't happen.

6 posted on 04/07/2015 3:32:40 PM PDT by Legatus (I think, therefore you're out of your mind)
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"What is your take on why people are fleeing the church?"

Because it's not Catholic enough.

Not serious about doctrine, not serious about discipline, not serious about being the Church Militant (while still having some of the characteristics of the Church Nurturant.)

If the Church made more demands at every level --- heroic truth, heroic service, the heroic attachment to Christ --- some slackers would leave but many men would be inspired and come back.

That's my take on it.

7 posted on 04/07/2015 3:37:38 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (He has given us great and precious promises; through them you may participate in the divine nature.)
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To: ealgeone

False ecumenism.


18 posted on 04/07/2015 4:23:21 PM PDT by piusv
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To: ealgeone
What is your take on why people are fleeing the church?

Some men left because they didn't want anyone to think they were molested. It was embarrassing.

62 posted on 04/08/2015 4:27:08 PM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival)
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