[ SECRET POST #2972 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2972 ⌋

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Comments

[brooms]

are you from the usa or an european country? it's more of a social religion in those places, but the catholic church as an institution is still very engaged in promoting conversion - http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/679/where_converts_are_made.aspx , http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-stats-show-continued-growth-in-africa-asia/

[othellia]

USA, which is why there's always this huge disconnect with my personal experiences vs the church as a whole.

At least half the USA Catholics I know (if not more), don't believe half the dogma, don't go to church regularly, etc, but they still call themselves Catholics, or at least identify as Catholic? It's almost like a sort of Judaism where you're Jewish because you were born Jewish rather than your actual beliefs and/or practices.

I went to mass for Ash Wednesday and actually ran into a friend who I had NO IDEA was Catholic, and we were both like "yeah. we don't go to mass as often as we should, disagree with a lot of the church teaching, but in the end we're Catholic." And then we talked about how much more awesome the service music was in the 90's.

But on the flip side, I do have a couple family members who are a lot more hardcore, don't believe in abortion or gay rights (and at least one uncle who I think is against birth control due to how many children he has, which even my GRANDPARENTS have sarcastically commented on), and then I read about shit going down in places like Argentina and the Philippines, and then I'm reminded just how schism'ed the church really is.

The recent American nun controversies I think display it the best:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/05/21/catholic-nuns-go-rogue.html
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/09/under-pope-francis-vatican-criticisms-of-american-nuns-keep-coming