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Most religious groups have lost ground in the last 40 years. We Catholics, by far, have gained the most, growing from 19 percent in 1961 -- the same year John F. Kennedy took office as the nation's first Catholic president -- to just over 30 percent today: mid-2009.
Catholics make up a larger share of the Senate (37 percent) than the House (21 percent). That's the good news. The sad news is that Catholics are powerfully divided between Republicans and Democrats.
Good news: A Catholic Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House, leader of the Democrats, and a Catholic John Boehner is Minority Leader of the House, leader of the Republicans.
Sad News: Though both catholic, they fuss and dispute like bitter enemies: one may as well be a communist or a atheist!
Bad News: Quite a few of the Catholics in Congress are refused Holy Communion by Bishops and Cardinals including 2004 Presidential candidate John Kerry, for his strong Pro-Abortion views.
Religion/faith of US Congress in the House and Senate, Catholics (30 percent)
Baptists (12 percent),
Methodists (11 percent),
Presbyterians (8 percent),
Episcopalians (7 percent)
Lutherans (4.5 percent).
No Religion (1 percent)
2 Buddhists
1 Muslim
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DID YOU KNOW? The Catholic Church is the Greatest Institution that ever existed!
The Nation of Israel lasted 1500 years! The mighty Roman Empire lasted for 1,000 years! The Muslim Empire lasted 600 years! Alexander-the-Great's Empire lasted 300 years! The British & Spanish Empires lasted 200 years! USA American Empire about 70 years (since WW-II) and crumbling!
The Catholic Church has lasted over 2000 years . . . and growing strong! Pope Pius-X, 1903
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The Catholic Church is the largest institution on Earth? China has 1.3 Billion Citizens Islam/Muslims have 1.2 Billion Believers India has 1.1 Billion Citizens Non-Catholic Christians (World-Wide) 1.0 Billion Catholics (Eastern & Western) 1.6 Billion DID YOU KNOW? The "Catholic Family" is the largest group of Americans . . . and GROWING?
Full-Gospel-Charismatics - Catholics = 45 Million in the USA Republican-Conservatives without Catholics = 42 million in the USA Baptists 40 Million in the USA Democrat-Liberals without Catholics = 36 Million AFL-CIO Members 10 Million in the USA Largest Denomination Southern Baptist 16 Million in the USA Jews, about 4 Million in the USA American, Independent & Latino Catholics: 100 Million in USA Official Roman Catholic Church Members 76 Million in USA DID YOU KNOW? "Catholics" as a percentage of Population in Continents of the World
Continent Catholics (%)
America 49.8
Europe 25.8
Africa 13.2
Asia 10.4
Oceania 0.8
St. Jerome Roman Catholic Church Father
“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.”
(Have you read you Bible yet today???) DID YOU KNOW?The top 100 Greatest Conservative Leaders of the USA today are almost all Catholic?
ARE ALMOST ALL CATHOLIC? Sarah Palin, Born, baptized Catholic & raised by Catholic mother, may be America's First Female PresidentSean Hannity, Second most listened to person in the world
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, most listened to woman in the world
Bill O'Reilly, Most listened TV News Anchor in the US
Laura Ingraham, Second most listened to female in the world
Glenn Beck, third most listened to person in the world
Ann Coulter, Best-Selling female author in the USA
Alan Keys, Presidential candidate
Pat Buchanan, Presidential Candidate
Joe Scarborough, Leading Journalist
John Boehner, Minority leader of the House of representatives
Ollie North, Military Hero
G. Gordon Liddy, Nixon Administration Great
Megyn Kelly, FOX News Journalist
Rick Santorum, Fmr. Senator PA
Terry Randall, Operation Resure
Chaplin of the US House of representatives
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
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See "Catholics for Huckabee Pope Benedict XV, 1914-1922
Introduction of Roman Catholic Bible translated from Latin Vulgate:
“The responsibility of our apostolic office impels us to… promote the study of Holy Scripture in accordance with the teaching of our predecessors, Leo XIII and Pius X…
We shall…never cease from urging the faithful to read daily the gospels, the Acts and the Epistles so as to gather hence food for their souls…
[A]s ignorance of the Bible means ignorance of Christ.”
“In her belief in the Divine Authority and the perfect truth of the Bible as being the inspired Word of God, the Catholic Church has never hesitated, neither has she overlooked the fact that this message must lie sealed and silent to many of her children unless given them in her own language.”
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WHAT DOES PROTESTANTISM OWE CATHOLICISM?
Protestants owe Catholics their Bible, from Catholics protecting Scriptures for well over 1,000 years, to the Latin Manuscripts, to Erasmus - who is deified by the modern King James Version crowd - who was a Catholic scholar.
Protestants owe Catholics the whole Right to Life Movement: as they have and do take the lead in all things "against Abortion'.
Protestants owe Catholics the still-lawful traditional marriage that does NOT include same-sex marriage.
Protestants owe Catholics their whole Christian school & home school movement. Had not the Catholics stood against encroaching government for 200 years there would be nothing but government Christian Schools today!
Protestants wouldn't even have the right to build churches, establish homes for unwed mothers, or senior citizens, had not the Catholics stood against encroaching government for 200 years!
Protestants wouldn't even have the right to use the Name of Jesus on TV & Radio ministry if Catholics had not the Catholics stood against encroaching government for 200 years!
The truth is, Protestants owe Catholics everything - from A to Z - so quit judging and condemning them and greet them as brothers & sisters in Christ Jesus!
Catholic Schools Struggling
BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland is considered the cradle of Roman Catholic education in America, but if that heritage is to endure, decisive action must be taken soon to address falling enrollment at Baltimore's parochial schools, the archbishop said.
For a decade, leaders have prayed the situation would turn around, Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien said. But this academic year, enrollment at archdiocese schools is down 5%, or approximately 1,200 students, according to the archdiocese. That's the equivalent of four full schools and twice the average decline of the previous five years.
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"To punt any further would be to lose the school system completely," O'Brien said. "It's obvious that some action has to be taken."
O'Brien recently gathered priests and educators to discuss the problem, and he'll introduce a committee formed to find solutions over the next 18 months. Leaders want most of all to avoid closing schools, but they'll also have to look at other painful options such as consolidation.
Baltimore, where English Catholics settled in the 1600s, was home to the first U.S. diocese, and was where in 1806, Elizabeth Ann Seton opened a Catholic school for girls. Seton, who was canonized in 1975, is credited with starting the parochial school system in the U.S.
The archdiocese's schools are facing the same problem as many Catholic school systems across the country, especially in the Northeast, said Mark Gray, research associate at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.
Catholic schools nationwide traditionally served immigrants who were concentrated in northeastern cities. As Catholics move to the suburbs and the Sun Belt, school buildings can't follow, Gray said.
In the suburbs and the South and Southwest, the problem is reversed with many Catholic schools not having enough seats for their growing communities, Gray said.
Another demographic shift affecting enrollment is a trend toward smaller families, which translates to fewer students, O'Brien said.
Historically, the work of members of religious orders kept costs low for Catholic schools, but now the staffs are mostly lay people and systems have to keep up with the costs of salaries and health benefits, Gray said.
The worsening economy has exacerbated problems, leaving families with less money to spare for tuition.
"There is a real concern about the future," Gray said. "Who are Catholic schools for if the average Catholic family can't afford tuition? It's supposed to be accessible to any Catholic family that wants to send their children there."
Ensuring that schools are accessible geographically and financially is key to increasing enrollment, O'Brien said. But Catholic school systems may find themselves reevaluating their missions.
"Our primary responsibility is to educate our Catholic kids in our tradition," O'Brien said. "But we also realize we have become kind of a refuge for others because of the state of public school systems in some areas. So we certainly have an obligation to the common good."
In the nearby Archdiocese of Washington, church leaders recently went through a process like Baltimore is beginning, holding a convocation on enrollment in October 2007.
One result was the fine-tuning of the archdiocese's tuition assistance program. Previously, the archdiocese helped needy schools balance budgets, but the new program aimed at retaining and attracting students means money can go toward an education instead of just paying bills, said spokeswoman Susan Gibbs.
The archdiocese spent $940,000 this academic year to retain 311 students and attract 238 new ones, and those families are paying $1.8 million in tuition, Gibbs said.
This academic year, Washington also took the unusual step of converting seven schools to a public charter group, which aims to maintain the high standards and values of Catholic schools without focusing on religion. Excluding the number of students lost through the conversion, enrollment in the archdiocese's schools was 2% lower this year.
The Diocese of Brooklyn and New York City announced just this month that they are considering a similar move, converting four schools with falling enrollment into publicly funded charter schools without religious instruction. However, state law prohibits converting religious schools into charters, so leaders will lobby to change the statute.
In Baltimore, parishioners know there will have to be sacrifices, but they don't want to lose their schools, O'Brien said. The archdiocese might have to take action before the committee completes its work, he said.
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