Catholic Mass attendance plummets in Poland

[GLam8833]

My impression from the Polish family I know
is that WORLDLINESS has crept in to their
lives, they are doing well work-wise and are
financially healthy, but they smoke and drink
and party to disco-rock music, it disgusted me
to be at their Christmas party!

Hi, I would like to retract this post, it EXPOSES me
as a “Busy-body Tale-bearer” and is not what a
just and upright person should post. The only re-
deeming factor is the intention to bring WORLDLINESS
into the discussion on the thread. I do, as it were
“repent in dust and ashes”.

 

[fnr]

You’re forgetting that Christianity quickly spread to parts of the world where no Latin of any type (Vulgar or Romance) was written or spoken and the corner of the world were Latin or its derivatives were spoken was in the distinct minority, certainly up until the Arab Conquest. This is why, just to name a couple of example, the Creeds were composed in Greek and why the Bible was translated into Syriac and Armenian. People living in Persia, Mesopotamia, China and India didn’t understand Latin. You could argue that Latin became prevalent in the Western/Latinate Church, sure. But that’s only a piece of the history of the Church.

Arguably, before the conquests by Arabs later known as Muslims, the majority of the Christian world spoke languages other than Latin. Greek, Syriac, Armenian, and languages even farther east. The Nestorian church was the primary Christian church in the Sassanian Empire, including Mesopotamia, Persia, and points east (including China until the Ming Dynasty). Before the caliphates came, North Africa was a Christian stronghold, with Coptic in the very populous Egypt and Latin in the west in the ruins of Roman North Africa.