The share of adults identifying as Catholic has declined sharply across much of Latin America over the past decade. The number of people with no religious affiliation has risen, according to a January 21 Pew Research Center report. This marks a shift in a region where more than 90% of people were Catholic around 1900. The report, Catholicism Has Declined in Latin America Over the Past Decade is based on surveys of more than 6,200 adults in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru conducted in spring 2024. Comparing the results with a similar 2013–14 survey, Pew found that the Catholic share fell by at least 9 percentage points in all six countries. Today, Catholics make up 46% of adults in Brazil and Chile, 58% in Argentina, 60% in Colombia, and 67% in both Mexico and Peru. A decade ago, all six countries had Catholic majorities of roughly six-in-ten or more adults. The Rise of the “Believing Nones” The share of religiously unaffiliated adults - those identifying as atheist …More
This report from the Pew Research Center is yet another reason for us, as Catholics, to "go all out." Is there still anyone who doubts that Vatican II was a failure? and that the time is near? and that it's better to be prepared...
At an altitude of 2,580 metres (8,500 feet) and located inside a towering sandstone spire the Abuna Yemata Guh church has to be the hardest and most dangerous church to reach. The church is in the Gheralta Mountains of Tigray in northern Ethiopia. A huge vertical sandstone structure shoots straight up 2,580 metres and like a miracle inside that rock one finds a Christian church. No doubt the hardest to access on the planet. The church takes its name from one of the nine saints who came to Ethiopia from Rome, Constantinople and Syria during the 5th and 6th centuries. The saints came to the region as missionaries to bring Christianity. They were also responsible for building monasteries and translated the Bible into Ge'ez, the old language of Ethiopia. Abuna Yemata Guh is one of the oldest churches in Ethiopia, and its founder worked to help carve the church into what is the highest sandstone spire in the area. The Church has beautiful mural paintings on its walls, domes and columns that …
St. John 4: 23-24: “But the hour will come-in fact it is here already when true worshipers, will worship the Father in spirit and truth: that is the kind of worshiper the Father wants. God is Spirit, and those who worship must worship in spirit and truth." 2) St Mathew 6,6: “But when you pray, go to your private room and, when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in that secret place, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you”. 3) Isaiah 26, 20: “Go into your rooms, my people, shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed” 4) Jeremiah 33:3: “Call to me and I will answer you; I will tell you great mysteries of which you know nothing”. 5) Romans 8, 26: “The Spirit too comes to help us in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we ought, the Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into words”. 6) Galatians 5, 22-23: “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience …More
Morning Prayer Lord, at the beginning of this day, I come to ask You for health, strength, peace, and wisdom. I want to look at the world today with eyes full of love, to be patient, understanding, gentle and prudent; to see, beyond appearances, Your children as You Yourself see them, and thus see only the good in each one. Close my ears to all slander. Guard my tongue from all evil. May my spirit be filled only with blessings. May I be so kind and joyful, that all who approach me may feel Your presence. Lord, clothe me in Your beauty, and may I, throughout this day, reveal You to everyone. Amen.
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Leftist women and their Romper Room mentality: Whether it’s the newest entrant into the Star Trek world or a day in court, leftist women, with their relentless faux “mommy-ness” demean our world.
One of my earliest memories dates to when I was three or, at most, four. Every day, I was glued to our black-and-white TV watching Romper Room, a television show for preschoolers. Miss Nancy opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and then conducted a 30-minute preschool class. This is what Miss Nancy was like back in the 1960s: It’s very sweet, very loving, very patriotic, and very appropriate for the 3-5-year-old set. But what happens when an entire political party is taken over by a horde of Miss Nancys? And worse, what happens when those Miss Nancys don’t focus their energy on raising normal, patriotic children (indeed, they want fewer children in the world, and think infanticide through abortion is brilliant), and instead want to use their warped maternal longings to scold and dominate the world? Well, to begin with, you have Holly Hunter in the new Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which is being roundly castigated as the worst show ever in a swiftly declining franchise. Once, Starfleet …
Bishop Robert Mutsaerts Wikimedia Commons, Danny Gerrits, CC-BY-SA 4.0 Dutch Bishop Robert Mutsaerts has criticized liberal theology as a great “danger that comes from within” to the Catholic Church. In an article on his blog published in early January, the auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of ‘s-Hertogenbosch cited Catholic author Hilaire Belloc, who wrote that he did not fear “’the barbarians at the gates,’ but rather the danger that comes from within.” “I would now like to address liberal theologians and believers. Not to accuse them, but to invite them to reconsider,” Mutsaerts wrote, adding, “If Belloc was right, and if he were to speak to us today, he might say: Christianity in Europe is not threatened by secularization alone, but by a theology that no longer trusts its own core.” He noted that in Germany, the problem is not external threats but the German bishops themselves, who “have published a document (‘Segen gibt der Liebe Kraft’) that offers pastoral guidelines for …