The church will become small ...She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built [like CAF]

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Tis_Bearself said:
I think your argument would be stronger if you just focused on the numbers in the pews and didn’t start trying to relate everything in the universe including CAF to the “Benedict Option”. Fauken nailed it in her first post responding to you, about 92 posts ago. There is nothing more to be said re CAF.
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But you started an alternative forum to CAF that is consistent with Benedict Option principles. You rejected the concept of the big public forum and instead made a smaller private board. Lo and behold, it worked… very well, I might add.
 
Rozellelily said:
Yet this Muslim guy has over 1 million subscribers on Youtube…
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Because as a result of having been successfully raised by their own culture, Muslims remain engaged with their faith over and against the world.
 
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Rozellelily said:
In all honestly, I find it very hard to believe there are only 70 users per day on CAF when I just counted roughly 35 users of this thread alone
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The user count has gone up since the closure announcement. But yeah, it was disappointing to see the actual stats I linked to above.

But it is encouraging to see that people are reading this thread, even though it will disappear in 29 days.
 
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Yeah. It seems that he also has a good following though from non- Muslims and there are sometimes people in the comments section writing “I left Christian now and now follow Islam” etc.
Perhaps CAF media should have went to him for marketing advice 😉
 
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vz71 said:
I’m not seeing a shrinkage in people in the pews.
I’m seeing the pew population as stable and older.
Perhaps I was not clear on the earlier pattern I see.

People over 60. As older members move on, more over 60 are there replacing them.

I have been watching this in multiple parishes for almost half a century now.
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Well, I linked to the stats from Gallup and WSJ and Pew throughout the thread, and they say what they say.

Instead of more statistics, let me just say that the Church is not supposed to be this:

 
And sometimes the mods don’t get a joke, deleting stuff over-enthusiastically without any comeback.
 
AMEN

It is also up to us to live lives that are so full of love that the people around us want to know our faith.

Sad, defeatest talk is the opposite of attractive.
 
MarysLurker said:
But you started an alternative forum to CAF that is consistent with Benedict Option principles . You rejected the concept of the big public forum and instead made a smaller private board. Lo and behold, it worked… very well, I might add.
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A small private board with 100+ members, which includes non-Catholics that has existed for maybe a week. I’m not sure that’s consistent with the Benedict Option, especially the non-Catholics part, and it’s way too early to be calling it a success either way.
 
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No. of Masses then (1949-54): 14 on Sun, 10 daily Mon-Sat (11 on Tue), 27 on Holy Days; plus 103 hrs 15 mins of Confessions per wk.

No. of Masses now (2019-20): 7 on Sun, 7 daily Mon-Fri, 4 on Sat (no special schedule for Holy Days); plus 10 hrs 30 mins of Confessions per wk.
 
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Fauken said:
A small private board with 100+ members, which includes non-Catholics that has existed for maybe a week. I’m not sure that’s consistent with the Benedict Option, especially the non-Catholics part, and it’s way too early to be calling it a success either way
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How do you define “success?”

@Tis_Bearself isn’t trying to reach the masses. She is trying to build a close community of Catholics and seekers and she has succeeded.

Note the seekers part.
 
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I used to paste too much on fb I trimmed it down deleted hundreds of posts my fb page Today consists of 6 posts all about the faith, no one engages except christians but I don’t encounter animosity anymore, the world has given up with me lol I’ll leave it there and sometimes post something current replacing an older post. That works best for me. Always good to see fellow Christians particularly Catholics engaging in some of the unevangelised places.
 
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MarysLurker said:
There aren’t any. That is the problem. Case in point: Catholic Answers was founded, primarily, to defend the Church from Protestant attack and to make converts out of them (and I am one of them.) This forum is supposed to do just that. Back in the day, it worked (and I am proof.) But it doesn’t work anymore.
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I did not realize you were a Catholic convert. You joined the forums recently in 2019 so are you a new convert?

7_Sorrows is also a convert. so I wonder how many converts that Catholic Answers may have had over the years probably quite a few.
 
tonyh12 said:
no one engages except christians but I don’t encounter animosity anymore, the world has given up with me lol
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That’s because FB filters based on interests. Only Christians see Christian content such that we end up preaching to the choir
 
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