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...
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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FSSPX Bishop Celebrates Mass in a Diocesan Church: Bishop Bernard Fellay (FSSPX) celebrated a Mass in the Roman Rite in a church of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida. The photos were published by Gerónimo María on X.com. However, the claim that a priest from the diocese served as deacon is disputed; it appears instead to have been Father Ezequiel Rubio of the Priestly Fraternity in South America. The occasion for the Mass was the sacrament of Confirmation. This also occurred about two years ago, when Bishop Tissier celebrated Mass in the same church, likewise with permission from the diocese.
Gerónimo María published on X.com: "We've had an SSPX bishop, Bishop Fellay, able to celebrate a Pontifical TLM in a church of the Diocese of Orlando, on the occasion of the confirmation of members of St. Thomas More, an SSPX church in Sanford. This already happened about two years ago, with Bishop Tissier doing the same thing in the same church."
THE WORD IS GOD St. John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God And the Word was God”. 2) St. John 6:63 "It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh has nothing to offer, The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and they are Life" 3) Psalm 119, 99-100 “I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because my meditation is your decrees. I am wiser than the ancients, because I keep thy statutes”. 4) St. John 15:3 ; “You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you”. 5) Jeremiah 1,12: Yahweh said, "Well seen ! I too watch over my word to see it fulfilled." 6) Ephesians 6,17: “Receive the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God”. 7) Hebrew 4,12: “The word of God is something alive and active: it cuts like any double-edged sword but more finely: it can slip through the place where the soul is divided from the spirit, or joints from the marrow; it can judge the secret emotions and thoughts. No created thing can hide from him; everything is …More