30 Million ex-Catholic Lost Souls

30 Million ex-Catholic American Lost Souls

Monday, March 3, 2008
Let us get to the source of the above title. We will quote extensively from the Survey Finds Religious Landscape in Flux. It is by Eric Gorski, AP, and Posted: 2008-02-25 and filed under: Nation News
“The U.S. religious market place is extremely volatile, with nearly half of American adults leaving the faith tradition of their upbringing to either switch allegiance or abandon religious affiliation altogether, a new survey finds….
Mainline Protestant churches are losing membership, but non-denominational churches are growing, according to a survey by Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life….
“The American religious economy is like a marketplace – very dynamic, very competitive,” said Lugo, director of the Pew Forum….
More than one-quarter of American adults have left the faith of their childhood for another religion or no religion at all, the survey found. Factoring in moves from one stream or denomination of Protestantism to another, the number rises to 44 percent.
One in four adults, 18 to 29 claim no affiliation with a religious institution….
The Roman Catholic Church has lost more members than any faith tradition because of affiliation swapping, the survey found. While nearly one in three Americans were raised Catholic, fewer than one in four say they’re Catholic today. THAT MEANS 10 PERCENT OF ALL AMERICANS ARE EX-CATHOLICS.
The share of the population that identifies as Catholic, however, has remained fairly stable in recent decades thanks to an influx of immigrant Catholics, mostly from Latin America. Nearly half of all Catholics under 30 are Hispanic, the survey found.”

The question is: Are there any Catholic role models for these ex-Catholic Americans? Do we have any? There is a lot of confusion. For example, in April 2004, the Vatican’s leading prelate – second only to the Pope – on the Sacraments, Cardinal Francis Arinze, declared unequivocally that ambiguously pro-abortion politicians should be denied Holy Communion. Cardinal Arinze said such a politician “is not fit” to receive Communion. “If they should not receive, then they should not be given,” he added. Why can we not help out the Catholic Church and the bishops and get rid and vote out of office all Catholic-in-name politicians? Some bishops follow the above and some don’t.
Let’s focus in like a laser beam on some other examples. This is in the 108th Congress, U.S. House of Representatives. (NRLC Scorecard) These Catholic politicians voted against Natural Law and the Catholic position on 1) Human cloning ban: 2) Abortion in military medical facilities: 3) Partial-Birth Abortion Ban 4) Unborn Victims of Violence Act. For California, their names include: Mike Thompson, Nancy Pelosi, Hilda Solis, Lucile-Royball, Grace Napolitano, Linda Sanchez, Joe Baca and Loretta Sanchez (voted NV on the Human Cloning Ban),

The above politicians (CINOPs) use the Catholic label and are making fools of Catholic American voters in California and in particular our Latino population and their family values. We have rotten apples as role models. Finally, is there nothing to be said for their political party that is promoting the five absolute evils a) Abortion on demand b) Assisted-Suicide c) Euthanasia d) Embryonic Stem-Cell Research and 2) Same-Sex Marriage? More rotten apples tomorrow:
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.