Why do non-Catholics send missionaries to Hispanic Catholics?

[peary]

You know better than this.
To dig up a two year old thread and mutter such nonsense.

Many “Catholics” in latin america practice a hybrid religion one that mixes Chritianity with the pagan religion before it.

Sorry - I stand by my posting. PERIOD.

 

[Hesychios]

Why has Latin America had such a hard time generating vocations?

This has nothing to do with Vat II, it has been an ongoing problem. My family has been supporting Catholic missioners to Latin America (and the Philippines) since many years before I was born, probably the 1930’s at least. The native church (a massive segment of the Catholic church) should have been sending missioners to places like Africa and China for hundreds of years, but instead it has imported priests for most of that time.

There is something seriously wrong.

So now we have a thread questioning the non-Catholic efforts in Hispanic countries, as if they are poaching. But quite frankly I see a whole block of global Christianity that has been underserved for generations.

Why is it that this block of nations had never reached a sustainable level of vocations to the priesthood? Why has it been so vulnerable to the intrusion of these foreign evangelists?

 

[Hisalone]

Sorry - I stand by my posting. PERIOD.

If you allow such practices you truly are apostate.

 

[peary]

Why has Latin America had such a hard time generating vocations?

This has nothing to do with Vat II, it has been an ongoing problem. My family has been supporting Catholic missioners to Latin America (and the Philippines) since many years before I was born, probably the 1930’s at least. The native church (a massive segment of the Catholic church) should have been sending missioners to places like Africa and China for hundreds of years, but instead it has imported priests for most of that time.

There is something seriously wrong.

So now we have a thread questioning the non-Catholic efforts in Hispanic countries, as if they are poaching. But quite frankly I see a whole block of global Christianity that has been underserved for generations.

Why is it that this block of nations had never reached a sustainable level of vocations to the priesthood? Why has it been so vulnerable to the intrusion of these foreign evangelists?

From my own personal experience with Hispanic seminarians, there really seems to be a problem with celibacy and obedience. Hispanic societies are so family-centered and childbearing that much pressure is placed on them to not even consider the priesthood. Also, especially in Mexico, there are still bad memories of Spanish priests who often treated the people like serfs. It seems that those seminarians who come from well-to-do homes may have more openness to celibacy, and usually they seem to be on the fast track in the seminary anyway. Very seldom do you get vocations from the ‘poor’, but I also think this has to do with the way the Church approaches them, as if priesthood is not something for them to consider. At least, that is what I experienced.

And, again, the evangelicals will link to those Hispanics who are already attending Mass and it is their Catholicism that they attempt to convince the people of being somehow wrong. They cater to the adolescent and those who are about 19-23 years of age. I remember seeing one evangelical on Brazilian TV who took a statue of Mary and broke it in pieces saying, “This idol of yours is destroyed!” You know, you can only shake your head sometimes.