@branman65@Myles@koropokkur@CharlesSynyard@not_benis@RaHoWaJoe Sedes may be cringe to you, but they're doing more to preserve the Catholic faith than Rome at the moment. I am deeply disappointed by Francis, and it's like every week that he does something that hurts to read now.
@CharlesSynyard@branman65@not_benis@RaHoWaJoe Catholicism as a cultural label is just another instance of Catholics having no good way to course correct and shed dead weight until after it's too late. Catholic-race is a thing, and it's a reflection of them still clinging to the days when they were the ZOG of the middle ages.
@not_benis@Myles Dude has a point Myles. The Catholic churches around me either look like nursing homes, or one of those urban fashion stores that know how to ring up shoes under WIC
@branman65@not_benis@Myles@RaHoWaJoe With all respect, you guys are dreaming. https://archive.ph/Id7uy There have been stories sounding the alarm like this for years now, even with the current Pope. God knew what he was doing saddling us with Francis. A big problem with these surveys has always been that due to Catholicism’s sacramental nature and rich culture, people who rarely or never go to mass identify as Catholic at much greater rates than lapsed evangelicals keep their label. Those who regularly practice the Faith would more closely resemble evangelicals. The worst thing US Catholics was be wets during the Temperance movement, but even the historic support for drinking has been overstated, as Catholics had their own anti-alcohol movement pioneered by Fr. Theobald Mathew. One parish near me even had a Temperance Hall at the time. IMG_1620.jpeg
@not_benis Catholic have historically been a solid Democrat voting bloc and a liberalizing influence. There's no denying this. Counting on Catholics to keep America American is pointless.
@Myles you know very well that among those Catholics there's a large number of Mexicans and South Americans who are migrants themselves, and even then 53% of those say immigration policy matters
@branman65@MK2boogaloo@CharlesSynyard@not_benis@koropokkur@Myles@RaHoWaJoe There's likely many people in the Vatican that the Church would be better off without. I can't trust that a siege of Rome wouldn't turn into pillaging and desecration of the legitimate Christian relics held there. I like you, but I'd beat your ass in real life before I let you commit iconoclasm out of ignorance. Unless it's destruction of South American icons, in which case hand me the bat and give me first swings.
@BowsacNoodle@Myles@koropokkur@CharlesSynyard@not_benis@RaHoWaJoe sedes forget it's not the middle ages anymore. Francis exists because Rome isn't the Rome that did the crusades anymore and can't play big and bad like they once could. so frankie spends his time begging euro boomers to not be honest about their apostasy, begging for a seat at the table at globohomo, and begging wetbacks to not become Pentecostal. In other words sedes are a reactionary spasm at the inevitable (the extinction of catholicism)
@branman65@CharlesSynyard@not_benis@koropokkur@Myles@RaHoWaJoe I wonder why you're salty all the time. Because I don't think the Protestant churches are in good condition. I was surprised to learn that the land where Calvinism was born is full of Catholics now.