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Very interesting reads, thank you for sharing.

To be honest, I’ve been so focused on the struggles within the RCC that I am rather ignorant of what is happening on the other side of the stained glass. The Church is slow to change and modern society is changing at an exponential rate, it only makes sense that there will be spiritual voids and group will form to fill those voids.

The first article seems to blame the RCC for the exedous, which I feel is unfair and the second seems to credit post modern society. If you were to compare the RCC to a corporation (again, unfair) it is losing market share because its customer base is changing.

Where is all this going? That is the million dollar question. I think the RCC will continue to lose members and become significantly smaller, but a core group of faithful will remain. The Church will eventually grow again, but future generation will leave for the same reasons listed in these stories. There will be a constant “ebb and flow” of true membership in the RCC.

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What is important ?

Fill the pews or being faithful to Jesus Christ and His teachings.
 
tom.wineman said:
What is important ?

Fill the pews or being faithful to Jesus Christ and His teachings.
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Well, according to the RCC, filling the pews is (at least in part) being faithful to Jesus Christ and his teachings. The fact that one in four Catholics regularly attend Mass when three in four did just a few decades ago is a stark reminder that something is wrong in God’s one true Church.

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