Partying Pilgrims Put Lourdes in an Uproar

[Aloysius]

perhaps he was thinking western europe. Russia's half europe and half asia anyway, sometimes people don't think of it when talking about Europe.

yeah, there's a bunch of lukewarm catholics in the US. but a lot of them have left or are leaving the more the younger generation of priests and bishops starts stepping up and enforcing these doctrines.

Most people who leave the Church leave because it's too strict.

[Didacus]

Oh, mere de nous tous, comme je tient a toi. Pardonner-leurs, ils ne savent point ce qu'ils font.

[Aloysius]

isn't this thread about Lourdes? Of course, it turned into Eutychus's favorite thing to do: play the numbers game, and the into the reasons catholics in the US leave the Church ... are you trying to prove that you can turn any subject into that? What do you have to say about the growth rate of Wicca? Maybe those are the "good fruits" our Lord was talking about? We should all follow the crowds, huh?

[homeschoolmom]

I'm going to merge all of these threads into one one of these days. They all stray so far from the OT....

[CatholicCid]

So how bout them Yankees

[CatholicCid]

So how bout them Yankees

[Lahecil]

[quote]isn't this thread about Lourdes? Of course, it turned into Eutychus's favorite thing to do: play the numbers game, and the into the reasons catholics in the US leave the Church ... are you trying to prove that you can turn any subject into that? What do you have to say about the growth rate of Wicca? Maybe those are the "good fruits" our Lord was talking about? We should all follow the crowds, huh?[/quote]
One thing about the growth rate of Wicca, keep in mind that if a religion has 10 members, and then get's one more, that's a 10% increase. Aside from that there's really no way to measure the amount of Wiccans, since there's no central authority and many are in the "broom closet", so to speak. Really, there's not that many of us.

[Aloysius]

yeah I suppose. My entire point is that there is no point in a numbers competition as if it could prove one religion better than another.

[Winchester]

Doesn't the Bible tell us the weeds will be among the wheat until the end times?

[Anomaly]

If God would have had the good sense to have Mary appear in Wisconsin instead of that god-foresaken 'French' Country, there wouldn't have been all the wine to get the tourists riled up.

But then again, all those people eating all that coagulated milk...

[homeschoolmom]

and beer and brats.