Future of Catholicism

[Peterski]

I think the Catholic religion is beautiful (I'm obviously biased since I'm Catholic myself) but what the institution has become is disgusting.

You are perhaps only "half-Catholic" if you uncritically believe in anti-Catholic propaganda that is usually not based on reliable sources or studies.

I want to see hard evidence showing that evil people are more common in the Catholic Church than among the general population or in other churches.

You are a nurse. Have you heard about the infamous German nurse Niels Högel? From time to time in the media you hear about cases of such evil nurses who abuse their patients (not as extreme as Högel's case, but still). Does it mean that the whole healthcare sector is corrupt?

Of course there is no systematic anti-nurse propaganda in the world, because nurses don't have as many enemies as the Catholic Church has.

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Have you watched this documentary, to see the opposite point of view (I sent you a link to this documentary some time ago)?:

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/luther

All priests I've personally met seem to be decent people, so I don't know where do you get your stories on corrupt priests from.

There is a lot of vicious anti-Catholic propaganda in Protestant parts of the West.

From that moment, the Catholic church became the homosexual conspiracy that it still is.
For the centuries to come, in the Catholic provinces of Europe, when peasant families realized they had a son more interested in reading than in dating young girls, they knew what to do: the boy is going to be a priest or a monk!
Similarly, lesbian girls ended up quite logically in female monasteries.

This is the reason why the more LGBT lobbies are powerful and visible, the less justification has the Catholic Church.

You are crazy. Gays are usually more promiscuous than straight men. They are not interested in reading but in dating other gays.

[Senpai]

Will Catholicism remain the largest single Christian denomination for the next millennia?

Yes, only because the Catholic church is extremely welcoming of anyone of any background. However Christianity as a whole will be on the fringes of society.

[Óttar]

Catholicism will probably remain the largest denomination because people don't want to give this up:



This starry-vault interior architectural style was typical of Roman "pagan" temples in late Antiquity and during the Renaissance, some churches were made to look like classical temples with starry-vault type domes on the inside (e.g. Saint Mark's in Rome).



Not to mention, the Church maintains the Feminine archetype to an extraordinary degree including certain *ahem* "mystical" imagery. The Church's antiquity and its mystic literature i.e. the Corpus Magisterium is quite formidable.



+ EGO SVM PAPA!!! + (Pectoral Cross of Pope John XXIII) Notice the All-Seeing Eye which has precedents all the way back to ancient Egypt.

[PrettyFarFromOkay]

It is far from benevolent. The institution itself is as corrupt as any Third world dictatorship and then some more. I think the Catholic religion is beautiful (I'm obviously biased since I'm Catholic myself) but what the institution has become is disgusting. There are thousands of good priests but there equally as many who are rotten and corrupt to the core. And then there are those in higher positions who protect the evil-doers and move them around from one diosece to the next to continue their deeds. There is much focus on priests abusing kids but it is worse than that. What they aren't talking about is the abuse of vulnerable people over the age of 18, including seminarians. You'll notice that they all talk about the abuse of minors, but not a word is said about seminarians and 'majors'. It is good that all this is coming to light. The institution should be forced onto its knees and be held accountable for what has been happening. Many good souls have been destroyed by this institution.

Yes. I’ve heard it called the “Lavender Mafia”— the cabal of homosexual bishops and priests who constantly try to cover for each other, even at the highest levels of Church leadership, all the way up to the College of Cardinals.

The priest abuse scandal has been massively (and I think intentionally) misrepresented by the media. The priesthood doesn’t have a pedophile problem, it has a gay problem. The priests who abused (primarily teenaged) boys were not the conservative and traditional priests that the media wants to assign blame to, but the gay and liberal priests that the media will praise in other contexts as great and necessary reformers. It’s a gross misrepresentation that the vast majority of people, even Catholics, have bought into.

[Adamastor]

Catholicism will probably remain the largest denomination because people don't want to give this up:



This starry-vault interior architectural style was typical of Roman "pagan" temples in late Antiquity and during the Renaissance, some churches were made to look like classical temples with starry-vault type domes on the inside (e.g. Saint Mark's in Rome).



Not to mention, the Church maintains the Feminine archetype to an extraordinary degree including certain *ahem* "mystical" imagery. The Church's antiquity and its mystic literature i.e. the Corpus Magisterium is quite formidable.



+ EGO SVM PAPA!!! + (Pectoral Cross of Pope John XXIII) Notice the All-Seeing Eye which has precedents all the way back to ancient Egypt.

I agree, if you want a traditional religion with beautiful rites and rich symbolism in the West you need to be Catholic. Protestantism is really really sterile and the legacy they will left in the world are disgusting Pentecostal cults in Latin America and Africa.

Look how their churches look:



This cannot be superior to this:



God likely has a good aesthetic taste.

[Óttar]

God likely has a good aesthetic taste.

Wow. Where is that?

[Harkonnen]

You are crazy. Gays are usually more promiscuous than straight men. They are not interested in reading but in dating other gays.

You think peasant Europe hundreds years ago operated like a Sicilian nightclub annoo domini 2k.

[JosephK]

Unfortunately in order to stay alive in the US, the Catholic Church panders to Latinos. And Latinos give much less to the Church so it can barely stay alive, unlike when Eastern and Southern European migrants made the local Churches the places of awe and devotion that they were.

[PrettyFarFromOkay]

Wow. Where is that?

https://www.ouropretoparoquiadopilar.com.br/

[Centurion]

Africa is the Future of Catholicism.