Used to live in Breda die since years, so you know why this happened to the Dutch Catholic church? I mean, they are getting people from Brazil and the Philippines to run the Church now because they can't find them domestically..
@@giuliom3564yeah I guess doctrinal mistakes and crimes often go together. If I'm "once saved always saved" then I can go rob banks and be a serial killer and still make it to heaven.... OOPS wait is that catholic or protestant "KJV Bible Only" church doctrine?????
@@resetsetmefree478 I'm not protestant but I don't think they believe a serial killer goes to heaven. In the catholic doctrine there are huge mistakes such worship of Mary, baptizing the babies and sprinkling water in the face instead of immersion under water. Also the denial that Jesus had brothers is ridiculous, just to claim Mary was virgin her whole life 😅. Also priests who can't get married is a big mistake. And then we know the murders committed by the Popes and all crimes related to Mafia.
@@giuliom3564 I don't understand your connection between the crimes you mention and the mistakes of doctrine. Yes I'm catholic but I don't worship Mary as you love to falsely accuse us of doing. Are you aware than lying is a sin or are you OSAS so you can do whatever you want including being a serial killer? If you really believe that how you live your life has no bearing on salvation then yes even killers can kill if they want to but.idk of any pope who has said that maybe you could show me And if you are kjv Bible Only then you need to show me the verse that says "thou shalt not baptize babies they are not eligible" if those words are not there then you go by the Bible plus something else for your doctrine Also Corinthians 15:6 New International Version 6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the BROTHERS and SISTERS at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Ok so you're saying that Mary was the one who gave birth to ALL of these? Wowee!!!!!!!!
I'm not Roman Catholic but i really pray for this nations 🙏🏻 ☦️🤝🏻✝️ There is not hope without Jesus Lord. I think the fact we Eastern Europeans were invaded and murdered by the islamic Ottoman Empire during 3 - 5 centuries made our Christian faith ☦️ stronger but Central and Western Europe didn't know what it means to be ruled by other religion until now, the difference is this time the muslims didn't use weapons to invade but you allowed them to get in.
Actually, we Spaniards and Portuguese know what it's like to suffer an armed Islamic invasion, and to fight by arms to retake our lands, but apprently our younger generation forgot all about it.
I pray for these countries that they once again regain their faith in lord 🙏 so that they will go to mass and participate in sacraments, greetings from an indian catholic from India 🇮🇳
Prayer and the Book called “Acts”, where Our Lord and Saviour Teaches good works and holy action. > If you live in America, you had better be voting President Trump.
@@JoellHedges-dm1mu So sad ... Trump ? The perfect example of an abuser of the religion and the faith ! He is always weirde ! No respect for the opposition, always 'shit' on people, gossiping, lying, etc ... A billionnaire always rude with the poor, the homeless, the workers. Working just for is rich friends not for the great American People ! He is the perfect example of Pharisian: Thank you Lord, I AM not like them !!! Be careful Robert, he is the wolf ...
Some Catholics don't attend Mass of the following reasons. 1. Being the Host is the true presence of Jesus so people with dishonest, arrogant, lying, untruthful characters hesitate to swallow the Host. 2. Some moderate Catholics feel humiliated when they observe how a blemish priest consecrated the body of Christ so ghey hesitate to attend Mass.
Some Catholics don't attend Mass of the following reasons. 1. Being the Host is the true presence of Jesus so people with dishonest, arrogant, lying, untruthful characters hesitate to swallow the Host.
@@WagesOfDestruction, I don't thinks so. According to Galoup survey 65% Jews in 2015 declared themselves as "non religious" or atheist. Plus in Israel there are a lot of progressive laws like same-s. "marriage", ect.
Pray for the U. S. Too. We don’t have enough priests in our diocese 1 priest for every 5 churches thats after closing many many churches!! Many of our still practicing priests are in the 70’s. Our church has morning Mass on Monday Thursday and Friday. Our Pastor is the Pastor of 4churches in our area of our diocese. We generally have 15/20 people in the morning at our church but at least one of the other 4 may have to close because of low attendance. Many of our parishioners (myself included) are in our 60’s 70’s and 80’s.Many homebound. I’m not sure when this gets better!! Pray for our Catholic Church in Rome and all the branches in our Countries of the world. People wake up to Jesus!!✝️
The cathedral of Lausanne is Protestant though (since 16th century) As Swiss catholic I‘d suggest you to visit the abbey of Einsiedeln one of the most famous abbey in the country (which still has monks /not the case of St. Gallen), the city of Solothurn cause it has a very nice cathedral, also I personally really like the little churches in Graubünden like the ones in Val Lumnezia (they also speak Romansch, which is a local language)
3:06 that's true. The situation here in Brazil is VERY bad. People that want to be religious "convert" to these "churches" that people create for making money. Thank God that there's at least some priests doing a good job around here in the internet, but they're few. Surprisingly, there was a rise in catholic priests for some years now, so there's hope
Although Brazil's "Catholic" population has been rapidly declining, the number of actual Catholics has been increasing over the years. Brazil also holds a strong Traditionalist movement in favor of the preservation of the Traditional Latin Mass. Don't forget that Bishop António de Castro Mayer, who was a close friend of Archebishop Marcel Lefebvre (founder of the SSPX), was a native Brazilian.
The Netherlands is quite OK, with low mass attendance, but our bishops are not liberal and parishioners are decent, not having the problems of Belgium, Spain and Germany.
There is good news from France! This past Easter (2024), more than 12,000 adults and teens were baptized into the Catholic Church...all at once. That is nearly 2% of the French population, so a great victory! Pray for these new converts, that they will be properly discipled and catechized.
I did see Mary appear to me even though I am a wretched sinner embraced me close to her heart as the loving caring tender mother I never had in my life since my mother is combative, aggressive, and neurotic leaving me longing and wounded for a mother’s love. She wore all white and identified herself to me as the “Theotokos” which suggests that’s where we need to reexamine from the Council of Ephesus because of Protestants badmouthing her and teaching others to do the same. The peace and calm in my soul both during the experience and when I woke up was like no other. She even showed me how the cherubim and seraphim encircle the throne of God looking on with me from under sitting next to her on a white marble bench blinded by the white dazzling light that pierces all as I was clothed in a white robe.
@@Justyouraverageguy172 You certainly saw Mary. Her messages at Garabandal (see U-tube) predict all this "calling" to people. The Catholic Church are waiting for another miracle there. Don't delay when these calls are given, I try never to do so.
@@therighteousrighthand..좋은 이야기이고 당연한 귀결이지만.. 현 카톨릭 교회의 상황은.. 오래만 되었지 ..신앙의 깊이는 형편없는 어린애 수준이지요.. 별 쓰잘데 없는 교리와 신학 논쟁만 발달해 있어요.. 아직도 영적으로 어린 성교회는 .. 어머니의 사랑과 젖을 먹어야 할 시기입니다.. 어머니의 사랑으로 더 큰 뒤에.. 성숙해져야만 아버지 앞에 서게 될 것입니다.. 예수 그리스도께서는 ..영적 아담이고.. 성모 마리아는 ..영적 하와이십니다..(성 교회의 원형) 항상 타락한 사제단들이 성교회를 타락으로 이끕니다.. 그러다가 유다왕국은 바빌론에 멸망하게 됩니다..(열왕기) 종교는 목적이 아니고 .. 하느님께 가는 과정..곧,징검다리임을 잊지마세요.. 종교를 착각하면 바리사이들과 율법학자들처럼 광신자들이 되고.. 사두가이들 처럼 스스로 하느님이 됩니다.. 성 교회와 카톨릭 신자들은.. 성모 마리아의 도움(사랑)과.. 예수 그리스도의 은총이 더 필요합니다.. 성모 마리아의 도움(젖,사랑)이 없이는 예수 그리스도께 나갈 수 없고.. 예수 그리스도의 은총이 없이는 하느님께 갈 수 없읍니다.. 예수 그리스도께서 십자가에서..요한에게 .. " 네 어머니이시다." 한..이유입니다.. 집에 모실뿐 아니라.. 공경하며 사랑해야하는 이유입니다..
Most places repeat the same pattern, the large cathedrals are dominated by the more "liberal" clergy, with only a few people attending with a very high average age, while communities with more traditional clergy and liturgy have many families with many children. Many traditionally Catholic but very atheist countries, such as the Czech Republic, are no longer experiencing a decline in Catholics or are almost at a standstill , then we may see many of these countries increase the percentage of religious, especially traditional with large families, a true demographic shift. If God wants it, it will happen.
One thing I take from this video is that there are a lot of people calling themselves catholic when they are, in fact, not catholic. If you don't go to mass at least on sundays you are not catholic.
Lithuania has a significant Orthodox population. The cathedral in Riga has been restored from its former use as a planetarium. There seemed to be quite a lot of people when I visited.
Rigs is in Latvia, not Lithuania. During the Soviet occupation, Stalin sought to “Russify” Latvia and Estonia by importing Russians and exiling almost 20% of the native peoples of Latvia and Estonia to Siberia. To this day both Latvia and Estonia have large Russian minority populations which refuse to integrate, even though they’ve lived there for 2-3 generations.
@@ljones436 Thanks, but I know that Riga is the capital of Latvia. I never said anything to the contrary. I also know about the Russians in Latvia. There are also old Believers who are Russian-speaking, but the Latvian government approves of them.
@@henrybn14ar Thanks for the information. We actually had a lady from Riga in our church. She went to the planetarium as a girl and said that the communists had actually chosen it to be the planetarium because of its shape. Was there anything still left to indicate the former usage?
Sad. I visited Maasticht in 1966 and the whole town seem to have celebrated All Saints Day. What are the Orthodox and Protestant attendances in the countries where there are significant Orthodox and Protestant populations? What are the Traditional Latin Mass attendances?
It started after the Second Vatican Council. The authorities in Rome try to excuse themselves by telling us that the Tridentine Mass was never banned. But they made it extremely difficult for it to be allowed with all sorts of provisos and conditions.
When society gives emphasis to self development and basic needs have been provided, all that is left is leisure and pleasure, God slips into the ether. The wishy washy clerical leadership encourages the drift.
I felt it all the way through Norway!!. Felt empty and lacked any beautiful christian buildings or artworks. I realised that Denmark, stripped Norway of any Catholic heritage, including the contribution from other European countries.
Thank you, Brothers, for the info! My comment for the time being is only a question: would the "cultural Catholics" die together with the practicing Catholics if the survey was "for real"? (You know what I mean.) Veritatis Missio
Not Brazilian, Portuguese myself, same language though. Brazil is sadly a mess of their own really. From the largest Catholic population for what might to be now one of the largest Protestant countries on earth, really! They've had a massive conversion rate from Catholic to Protestant from the late 80's to the mid 10's that entirely transformed their religious landscape. You'll see a Protestant Church at really every corner, whatever the form it may have from a little house, a shop transformed for cult purposes, a garage used as a Church, or actually a Church. Things are now somewhat more complex. As economy develops, Brazil is becoming more secular, perhaps at a rate that would surprise many, not me personally. Most of those Pentecostal Protestant Churches are now very corrupted from the top down. People are leaving in droves, but the Catholic Faith has long ago passed its non returning point...
@@nunagorasconversions and adult baptisms are now on the rise at least in my parish, mostly because of the work of various people on the internet that are concerned with our country's extremely low mass attendance and faith. Non practicing catholics are just like any protestant you find around here, they have to convert the same way
Whenever a nation loses its Christian Faith on a big scale, then a new, stronger religion or Ideology will fill in that void for people's need for meaning. I fear what Europe may become.
Despite this people like Pope Francis curtail ordination of traditional priests in France. If Pope Benedict’s rules were left in place Traditionalists mass attendees would surpass Novus Ordo attendees by 2060 assuming current rates of growth and decline remained constant. Probably a reason Cardinal Roche and his ilk want to suppress the traditional liturgy more. Doing so causes some to wonder if they even have the faith themselves?
“Assuming current rates of growth and decline remained constant.” As an actuary (someone who models future growth and decay for a living) I can tell you that you can only assume that assumptions itself is wrong. Also if we want to see more TLM we are going to have to curb the abusers of it more.
I don't think the French. The void Revolution and Enlightenment did French Catholicism any favours. The Paris Olympics' opening ceremony highlighted this. The void is being filled by Islam.
You are mistaken. This is the sentiment of a lot of people who do not know France and look at it through the prism of television or videos like this. They therefore get a very incomplete image of the country. Same when you are a tourist, as you then usually only visit the big cities like Paris or Marseille where the situation is the worst with the arrival of migrants there. The truth is that in my 30 years in this world, I have never seen such a renaissance for Christianity, the values of Christianity and such an attachment to the Roman Catholic Church, if not as members, at least as a symbol of our country. The ranks of the churches at mass start to get filled with young people, especially young men when 10 years ago only old people around 70/80 were seen there. Way more people live openly catholic, probably in response to Islam's presence. Most importantly, the absolute existential danger of Islam is now understood in the country and the islamic plan to conquer the country is now openly discussed as it was forbidden 10 years ago. The world changes and contrary to what you'd think, time plays in favor of Christinanity. The islamic wave has paradoxally started a immense response of the younger french who go back to their roots.
A remnant will remain. Our Lord posed the question to his disciples "when the Son of man returns do you think he will find faith?" A prophecy in this in think.
The Netherlands is not part of Scandinavia. The Scandinavian countries are Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Some include Iceland in that listing but not the Netherlands.
The fruits of Vatican II. France is particularly noteworthy as it was once the most Catholic country in Europe. Recently they proudly enshrined the right to abortion (baby-killing) in their Constitution.
distrust of institutions in general has been growing in the world, and catholicism is not just seen as a religion but the catholic church is seen as the most institutionalized version of it, similarly to the distrust of the state or the government distrust hits catholics more than protestants where the very idea is decentralization and self governance
@@fixpontt That's an interesting explanation! I think it's part of it though, what I noticed for example is that many Catholic raised in the NL, in the Catholic majority parts, people have a very limited understanding of who Jesus is, a kid in a crib instead of our saviour. They look at Catholicism more as a culture then a religion that encourages a personal relationship with God. What's interesting though, the most faithful Catholics I've met lived in the protestant area's! There they are actually well organised.
So you left all the information the video and this is the only thing that attracted you. You are pathetic. Moreover, even though the Netherlands is in not Scandinavia yet the low church attendance there mimic the loss of Faith in Scandinavia. Wake up
France didn't exist in 2nd century, the Franks didn't even arrived to the Gaul region at that time and it was part of the Roman Empire. France was born during 8 and 9 century. The First official Christian Kingdoms in history were Armenia 🇦🇲 (306 AD) and Ethiopia 🇪🇹 (314 AD) both Orthodox nations ☦️
The country France didn’t exist but the land was still there. There was activity of Christians in the land that is now called France would be more accurate.
@@zacharyahearn4069 Yes the land was the Roman province of Gaul. There Christians there but they weren't Franks or French and they weren't a Kingdom or a nation yet as this video says. It is sad because if the Roman Church always says they are the ancient church of Jerusalem then why always ignore Armenia, Ethiopia and Georgia the real first sons of the Church ☦️
I expected Brazil, France, and especially the Netherlands to be on this list. I was not surprised. Concerning Switzerland, which had a slight Protestant majority until the late 1960's, the Protestants are doing even more poorly than the Catholics. Same with the Netherlands. From what I've heard in recent years, the Dutch are only 12% Catholic and 10% Protestant, and 70+% no religion. The Dutch were 61% Protestant in 1900. The Catholic Church in Brazil seems to be a hopeless cause. I did not think that France had much Protestant growth, I thought that such growth came chiefly from immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa.
Here in Hungary the Catholic Church lost much of its former esteem, as 35 years after the fall of Communism the Catholic Church did not acknowledge its collaboration with the Communist secret service - some people say there were no Catholic bishops - including the Primate of the Hungarian Church, the Archbishop of Esztergom - who were not agents of the Communist secret service. It also does not help that most bishops support the Orbán regime.
People we need to know/acknowledge: Heaven and Hell are real! YOUR CHOICE. Prayers for all people to understand and repent from the Great South Land of the Holy Spirit. COME HOLY SPIRIT COME by means of the Immaculate heart of Mary, your well beloved SPOUSE.
Does not surprise me. At the time of Henry VIII in England Cardinal Wolsey who was the King's chief minister had a mistress with whom he had a son and daughter. He got a title from the king for his son and put the daughter into a convent.
YOU CAN BLAME: Martin Luther, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, all the anti-Popes, and their so-called “Novus Ordo” Circus Service, when you depart from Our Lord and Savior Holy Teachings & Traditions.
Of these five countries, only two (France and Brazil) are traditionally Catholic. Latvia and the Netherlands are traditionally Protestant, Switzerland has both Catholic and Protestant parts, with Protestantism having a huge historical and cultural impact.
The problem with religion in Germany is that the government takes tax money from the people and gives it to both the Catholic and Protestant churches. The German's are fed up with this, and rightly so. Religion has been picking the pockets of the masses for centuries only to enrich themselves. It's time that the rest of the world wakes up and sees religion for what it is - organized charlatanism and control.
Isn't missing mass on a day of obligation (every Sunday) a mortal sin? So those who are labeled Catholic in these countries but are failing to attend mass as is required, are damned, aren't they? They may go to confession, though I doubt they are, aren't being honest when they confess this sin unless it's accompanied by a sudden compliance with attendance. There are in actuality very few Catholics in these countries, or any place where there is poor mass attendance.
@ralf547 you can't be sure anyone is damned. Your basic premise may be correct, but just because you can't get to mass, it doesn't damn you is my thought. That is what I meant by "Judge not..."
@@lynnmeyers10 everyone has to judge, how else can you help someone else unless you figure out if they believe truth or a falsehood, or if they outwardly live a life in rebellion of God's commandments? We can't judge based on our own standards. We have God's law, commandments, and gospel by which to judge. Imperfectly for sure, but we are His workmanship, created for good works and loving our neighbors is the ultimate good work and it involves correcting them according to God's truth. At the same time, we can be correcting ourselves and might even be corrected by those we are correcting if they turn out to be better versed and living better than we are.
@ralf547 to a degree, but not to the point of saying you are damned because you aren't in Church on Sunday. That is God's judgment call from him to you. If you can't go, you aren't damned.
@@henrybn14ar I'm delighted to introduce myself as a faithful Eastern Orthodox who loves God with all my heart. Miami, Florida, is my hometown, but I now live in Canada. What about you?"
So much for the hope of Pope John XXIII that the council would see a renewal of the faith and be taught with ever greater clarity and without attenuation.
Lies make any objectives unreachable. The best way to end up at the wrong destination is to ignore the signs or follow a map that is false and does not describe the terrain to be traveled. Truth is the fundamental tool that enables us to plot a direction in life and build a life that is worth living.
@@zacharyahearn4069 One of my touchstones to distinguish between truth and error is that truth is characterized by being simultaneously simple and deep, while error is mischaracterized by being simplistic and complicated. As Malachy Martin said "Confusion, it would seem, is a prime weapon of evil. Sex is confused with gender. Spirit is confused with psyche. Moral value is confused with absence of any value. Mystery is confused with untruth. And, in every case, rational argument is used, not to clarify, but as a trap, to foster confusion." I find this pattern in much left wing discourse. If you want to research the topic a good starting point is Ian McGilchrist's The Master and His Emmisary or his follow up books,
Evolve from devout Catholic to Christian Anarchist/ Consecrate yourself, heart, soul, mind and body to the Holy Spirit/ Jesus Christ is the original Christian Anarchist, high Priest of the Church/ Life is theological, not ideological/ God is not communist/
The Netherlands is not a Scandinavian country, as this obvious AI voice has stated. For an AI, it is rather ignorant. Belief is a personal matter rather than bemoaning the low church attendance; the Catholic hierarchy should be happy that the state taxes collected on its behalf go toward maintaining the grand cathedrals and monasteries as well as the priests and bishops. Even when masses were attended by many more communicants, then today, what is to say that many of those attending might also have been more cultural Catholics than true believers. Especially in those days when not publically professing the faith made people targets of the inquisition.
I’ve concluded that what he says in the video isn’t factual. There must be several thousand people in the barangay I live in here in the Philippines. Occasionally my wife decides to go to mass and I’ll accompany her. We always see the same 40 or so women and children there. Only one other man attends. Perhaps part of the reason for such low attendance is that they only offer one Mass and it’s at 7:00 AM. A very unpopular time when many people are still in bed, sleeping in.
Greetings from a Dutch Catholic, pray for our country
You'll be under water soon.
Your people revolted against the church! No wonder you have low attendance
Used to live in Breda die since years, so you know why this happened to the Dutch Catholic church? I mean, they are getting people from Brazil and the Philippines to run the Church now because they can't find them domestically..
Please don’t give up and remain faithful to Jesus no matter what.
@@anthtan We need more than that, we need some courageous people to evangalize our two predominantly Catholic provinces (Brabant and Limburg).
I was in France recently. I was in Alsace where some people are still going to church, but in general the situation is very dismal.
So sad. Many Catholics are poor in defending the faith. 😢Time to stand up and practice the faith in words and actions.
Also it's also hard to defend a faith with so many doctrinal mistakes and that committed so many crimes.
@@giuliom3564Read the history of first Christians from 1st and 2nd century and then judge
@@giuliom3564yeah I guess doctrinal mistakes and crimes often go together. If I'm "once saved always saved" then I can go rob banks and be a serial killer and still make it to heaven....
OOPS wait is that catholic or protestant "KJV Bible Only" church doctrine?????
@@resetsetmefree478 I'm not protestant but I don't think they believe a serial killer goes to heaven. In the catholic doctrine there are huge mistakes such worship of Mary, baptizing the babies and sprinkling water in the face instead of immersion under water. Also the denial that Jesus had brothers is ridiculous, just to claim Mary was virgin her whole life 😅. Also priests who can't get married is a big mistake. And then we know the murders committed by the Popes and all crimes related to Mafia.
@@giuliom3564 I don't understand your connection between the crimes you mention and the mistakes of doctrine. Yes I'm catholic but I don't worship Mary as you love to falsely accuse us of doing. Are you aware than lying is a sin or are you OSAS so you can do whatever you want including being a serial killer? If you really believe that how you live your life has no bearing on salvation then yes even killers can kill if they want to but.idk of any pope who has said that maybe you could show me
And if you are kjv Bible Only then you need to show me the verse that says "thou shalt not baptize babies they are not eligible" if those words are not there then you go by the Bible plus something else for your doctrine
Also Corinthians 15:6
New International Version
6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the BROTHERS and SISTERS at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.
Ok so you're saying that Mary was the one who gave birth to ALL of these? Wowee!!!!!!!!
I'm not Roman Catholic but i really pray for this nations 🙏🏻 ☦️🤝🏻✝️
There is not hope without Jesus Lord.
I think the fact we Eastern Europeans were invaded and murdered by the islamic Ottoman Empire during 3 - 5 centuries made our Christian faith ☦️ stronger but Central and Western Europe didn't know what it means to be ruled by other religion until now, the difference is this time the muslims didn't use weapons to invade but you allowed them to get in.
Finding this out right now ...
Jesus is a mushroom.
@@HellMary3
Jesus is your creator and savior.
@@AndronikosNikephoros Tell yourself that if it makes you feel better.
Actually, we Spaniards and Portuguese know what it's like to suffer an armed Islamic invasion, and to fight by arms to retake our lands, but apprently our younger generation forgot all about it.
I pray for these countries that they once again regain their faith in lord 🙏 so that they will go to mass and participate in sacraments, greetings from an indian catholic from India 🇮🇳
Prayer and the Book called “Acts”, where Our Lord and Saviour Teaches good works and holy action. > If you live in America, you had better be voting President Trump.
@@JoellHedges-dm1mu So sad ... Trump ? The perfect example of an abuser of the religion and the faith !
He is always weirde ! No respect for the opposition, always 'shit' on people, gossiping, lying, etc ...
A billionnaire always rude with the poor, the homeless, the workers. Working just for is rich friends not for the great American People !
He is the perfect example of Pharisian: Thank you Lord, I AM not like them !!! Be careful Robert, he is the wolf ...
Some Catholics don't attend Mass of the following reasons.
1. Being the Host is the true presence of Jesus so people with dishonest, arrogant, lying, untruthful characters hesitate to swallow the Host.
2. Some moderate Catholics feel humiliated when they observe how a blemish priest consecrated the body of Christ so ghey hesitate to attend Mass.
Some Catholics don't attend Mass of the following reasons.
1. Being the Host is the true presence of Jesus so people with dishonest, arrogant, lying, untruthful characters hesitate to swallow the Host.
@@JoellHedges-dm1mu The antichrist?
The more people getting rich, the more they forget about Lord
The only exception I know of is Israel
@@WagesOfDestruction, I don't thinks so. According to Galoup survey 65% Jews in 2015 declared themselves as "non religious" or atheist. Plus in Israel there are a lot of progressive laws like same-s. "marriage", ect.
@@jakubkosz1009@jakubkosz1009 Look again. You will see a steady increase in the percentage of religious voters over time.
100%. This is Canada tooo. So this is why there is A Chastisement.
@@WagesOfDestruction Nope, Israelis are overwhelmingly atheists.
Praying for these churches ⛪️ and countries. May they return to the faith. Amen 🙏🏼 ✝️
Pray for the U. S. Too.
We don’t have enough priests in our diocese
1 priest for every 5 churches thats
after closing many many churches!! Many of our still practicing priests are in the 70’s.
Our church has morning Mass on Monday Thursday and Friday. Our Pastor is the Pastor of 4churches in our area of our diocese. We generally have 15/20 people in the morning at our church but at least one of the other 4 may have to close because of low attendance. Many of our parishioners (myself included) are in our 60’s 70’s and 80’s.Many homebound. I’m not sure when this gets better!! Pray for our Catholic Church in Rome and all the branches in our Countries of the world.
People wake up to Jesus!!✝️
The Netherlands is not in Scandinavia.
You are behind the times. They picked up and moved 17 years ago.
@@markalexander832 😂
Very sorry for my country, Brazil! May the holy Mother intercedes for us for a new Pentecost here!
Why is the mass attendance percentage so low?
@@anthtan It all started in 1960......
@@zuarbrincar769 what happened in 1960?
@@anthtan Cultural revolution, Vatican 2
The catholic churches in Brazil are not empty. Maybe this is the reality of some places in here.
The cathedral of Lausanne is Protestant though (since 16th century) As Swiss catholic I‘d suggest you to visit the abbey of Einsiedeln one of the most famous abbey in the country (which still has monks /not the case of St. Gallen), the city of Solothurn cause it has a very nice cathedral, also I personally really like the little churches in Graubünden like the ones in Val Lumnezia (they also speak Romansch, which is a local language)
5. Latvia.
4. Switzerland.
3. Brazil.
2. France.
1. Netherlands.
Well done Netherlands.
I knew that shithole France would be in there.
And France was always called the Daughter of the Church.
“France is no longer France.” -Donald Trump
Latvia is mostly protestant country
I think these trends will change. I think hard times are coming to the west and as a result people will return to the faith. Just an opinion
3:06 that's true. The situation here in Brazil is VERY bad. People that want to be religious "convert" to these "churches" that people create for making money. Thank God that there's at least some priests doing a good job around here in the internet, but they're few. Surprisingly, there was a rise in catholic priests for some years now, so there's hope
Although Brazil's "Catholic" population has been rapidly declining, the number of actual Catholics has been increasing over the years. Brazil also holds a strong Traditionalist movement in favor of the preservation of the Traditional Latin Mass.
Don't forget that Bishop António de Castro Mayer, who was a close friend of Archebishop Marcel Lefebvre (founder of the SSPX), was a native Brazilian.
The Netherlands is quite OK, with low mass attendance, but our bishops are not liberal and parishioners are decent, not having the problems of Belgium, Spain and Germany.
There is good news from France! This past Easter (2024), more than 12,000 adults and teens were baptized into the Catholic Church...all at once. That is nearly 2% of the French population, so a great victory! Pray for these new converts, that they will be properly discipled and catechized.
Please redo the maths!
That's 0.02% of the population, not 2.
The French seemed to care about Notre Dame!😮
Bring back Tridentine Mass of all ages.
Bring back Daily Family Rosary.
Soon it will improve.
And maybe if the Pope was Catholic it would improve. 🙏🙏🙏
Pray for me
Yes pray for me
Done!
Yes I have
No
The Catholic Church needs to use the present day messages of Mary far more and understand her role, which will be pivotal.
I did see Mary appear to me even though I am a wretched sinner embraced me close to her heart as the loving caring tender mother I never had in my life since my mother is combative, aggressive, and neurotic leaving me longing and wounded for a mother’s love. She wore all white and identified herself to me as the “Theotokos” which suggests that’s where we need to reexamine from the Council of Ephesus because of Protestants badmouthing her and teaching others to do the same. The peace and calm in my soul both during the experience and when I woke up was like no other. She even showed me how the cherubim and seraphim encircle the throne of God looking on with me from under sitting next to her on a white marble bench blinded by the white dazzling light that pierces all as I was clothed in a white robe.
@@Justyouraverageguy172 You certainly saw Mary. Her messages at Garabandal (see U-tube) predict all this "calling" to people. The Catholic Church are waiting for another miracle there. Don't delay when these calls are given, I try never to do so.
I think it's time to return to Jesus and keep Him as the center of our Catholic faith
@@therighteousrighthand..좋은 이야기이고 당연한 귀결이지만..
현 카톨릭 교회의 상황은..
오래만 되었지 ..신앙의 깊이는 형편없는 어린애 수준이지요..
별 쓰잘데 없는 교리와 신학 논쟁만 발달해 있어요..
아직도 영적으로 어린 성교회는 ..
어머니의 사랑과 젖을 먹어야 할 시기입니다..
어머니의 사랑으로 더 큰 뒤에..
성숙해져야만 아버지 앞에 서게 될 것입니다..
예수 그리스도께서는 ..영적 아담이고..
성모 마리아는 ..영적 하와이십니다..(성 교회의 원형)
항상 타락한 사제단들이 성교회를 타락으로 이끕니다..
그러다가 유다왕국은 바빌론에 멸망하게 됩니다..(열왕기)
종교는 목적이 아니고 ..
하느님께 가는 과정..곧,징검다리임을 잊지마세요..
종교를 착각하면 바리사이들과 율법학자들처럼 광신자들이 되고..
사두가이들 처럼 스스로 하느님이 됩니다..
성 교회와 카톨릭 신자들은..
성모 마리아의 도움(사랑)과..
예수 그리스도의 은총이 더 필요합니다..
성모 마리아의 도움(젖,사랑)이 없이는 예수 그리스도께 나갈 수 없고..
예수 그리스도의 은총이 없이는 하느님께 갈 수 없읍니다..
예수 그리스도께서 십자가에서..요한에게 ..
" 네 어머니이시다." 한..이유입니다..
집에 모실뿐 아니라..
공경하며 사랑해야하는 이유입니다..
Most places repeat the same pattern, the large cathedrals are dominated by the more "liberal" clergy, with only a few people attending with a very high average age, while communities with more traditional clergy and liturgy have many families with many children. Many traditionally Catholic but very atheist countries, such as the Czech Republic, are no longer experiencing a decline in Catholics or are almost at a standstill , then we may see many of these countries increase the percentage of religious, especially traditional with large families, a true demographic shift. If God wants it, it will happen.
May the Blessed Mother Mary intercede for them so that the Holy Spirit will enlighten them 🙏🙏🙏
LOL. I'm sure your prayers will help immensely.
Let us pray for them so as to bring to attend in the powerful and holy mass
I am going back to the catholic church. I believed what I was being told and not gathering the information for myself.
One thing I take from this video is that there are a lot of people calling themselves catholic when they are, in fact, not catholic. If you don't go to mass at least on sundays you are not catholic.
Can a Catholic practice "safe sex"? Can they eat meat on Fridays?
Very sad to hear about Lithuania (and Latvia too) considering all that they went through in the communist era.
Lithuania has a significant Orthodox population. The cathedral in Riga has been restored from its former use as a planetarium. There seemed to be quite a lot of people when I visited.
Rigs is in Latvia, not Lithuania. During the Soviet occupation, Stalin sought to “Russify” Latvia and Estonia by importing Russians and exiling almost 20% of the native peoples of Latvia and Estonia to Siberia. To this day both Latvia and Estonia have large Russian minority populations which refuse to integrate, even though they’ve lived there for 2-3 generations.
@@ljones436 Thanks, but I know that Riga is the capital of Latvia. I never said anything to the contrary. I also know about the Russians in Latvia. There are also old Believers who are Russian-speaking, but the Latvian government approves of them.
@@henrybn14ar Thanks for the information. We actually had a lady from Riga in our church. She went to the planetarium as a girl and said that the communists had actually chosen it to be the planetarium because of its shape. Was there anything still left to indicate the former usage?
Sad. I visited Maasticht in 1966 and the whole town seem to have celebrated All Saints Day. What are the Orthodox and Protestant attendances in the countries where there are significant Orthodox and Protestant populations?
What are the Traditional Latin Mass attendances?
Too bad the Pope banned Traditional Latin Masses! 😔😢
It started after the Second Vatican Council. The authorities in Rome try to excuse themselves by telling us that the Tridentine Mass was never banned. But they made it extremely difficult for it to be allowed with all sorts of provisos and conditions.
5:26 I mean it's hard to be surprised. Imagine living in a place with lava lakes and zombie pigs, it's definitely hard to get to a church.
The bishops have done a disservice to Catholics by hiding the crimes of priests.
Yes they certainly have my friend. it's not only a "disservice" it's a crime.
Parentes always hid their kids from general scrutinium.
When society gives emphasis to self development and basic needs have been provided, all that is left is leisure and pleasure, God slips into the ether. The wishy washy clerical leadership encourages the drift.
I love Catholic
The Netherlands isn’t a Scandavian country.
Maybe he didn't mean Netherlands is Scandinavian. He added the Scandinavian countries in the concept of secularism
Too difficult a concept for Muppets to understand.. 😊😊😊
I felt it all the way through Norway!!.
Felt empty and lacked any beautiful christian buildings or artworks.
I realised that Denmark, stripped Norway of any Catholic heritage, including the contribution from other European countries.
Netherlands is not part of Scandinavia.
The mass is our greatest treasure 😃🙏
Thank you, Brothers, for the info! My comment for the time being is only a question: would the "cultural Catholics" die together with the practicing Catholics if the survey was "for real"? (You know what I mean.) Veritatis Missio
Watching
Interesting video
God bless everyone
wow! the worlds largest catholic country brazil is also one of the lowest in mass attendance rate
Not Brazilian, Portuguese myself, same language though. Brazil is sadly a mess of their own really. From the largest Catholic population for what might to be now one of the largest Protestant countries on earth, really! They've had a massive conversion rate from Catholic to Protestant from the late 80's to the mid 10's that entirely transformed their religious landscape. You'll see a Protestant Church at really every corner, whatever the form it may have from a little house, a shop transformed for cult purposes, a garage used as a Church, or actually a Church.
Things are now somewhat more complex. As economy develops, Brazil is becoming more secular, perhaps at a rate that would surprise many, not me personally. Most of those Pentecostal Protestant Churches are now very corrupted from the top down. People are leaving in droves, but the Catholic Faith has long ago passed its non returning point...
@@nunagorasconversions and adult baptisms are now on the rise at least in my parish, mostly because of the work of various people on the internet that are concerned with our country's extremely low mass attendance and faith. Non practicing catholics are just like any protestant you find around here, they have to convert the same way
Mercy on us Lord ... Hosanna
Here in the USA the immigrants from Latinamerica are bringing life and Vigor to the Catholic church.
Whenever a nation loses its Christian Faith on a big scale, then a new, stronger religion or Ideology will fill in that void for people's need for meaning. I fear what Europe may become.
It’s already happening. The void is being filled by the woke ideology.
Praise to be God 🙏
Apologetics is the key to rejuvenate Catholic Church .... Not mere Homilies ... Mercy on us Lord ...
Despite this people like Pope Francis curtail ordination of traditional priests in France. If Pope Benedict’s rules were left in place Traditionalists mass attendees would surpass Novus Ordo attendees by 2060 assuming current rates of growth and decline remained constant. Probably a reason Cardinal Roche and his ilk want to suppress the traditional liturgy more. Doing so causes some to wonder if they even have the faith themselves?
“Assuming current rates of growth and decline remained constant.”
As an actuary (someone who models future growth and decay for a living) I can tell you that you can only assume that assumptions itself is wrong.
Also if we want to see more TLM we are going to have to curb the abusers of it more.
Please pray for Canada.
🙏 ✝️ 🇨🇦
Beloved Mother Mary please pray for us❤😢
So very sad. These people don't know what they are missing. May God have mercy on them.
I witness that in 2019 somewhere in one of european country only few church goers there.
I don't think the French. The void Revolution and Enlightenment did French Catholicism any favours. The Paris Olympics' opening ceremony highlighted this. The void is being filled by Islam.
You are mistaken. This is the sentiment of a lot of people who do not know France and look at it through the prism of television or videos like this. They therefore get a very incomplete image of the country. Same when you are a tourist, as you then usually only visit the big cities like Paris or Marseille where the situation is the worst with the arrival of migrants there.
The truth is that in my 30 years in this world, I have never seen such a renaissance for Christianity, the values of Christianity and such an attachment to the Roman Catholic Church, if not as members, at least as a symbol of our country.
The ranks of the churches at mass start to get filled with young people, especially young men when 10 years ago only old people around 70/80 were seen there. Way more people live openly catholic, probably in response to Islam's presence.
Most importantly, the absolute existential danger of Islam is now understood in the country and the islamic plan to conquer the country is now openly discussed as it was forbidden 10 years ago.
The world changes and contrary to what you'd think, time plays in favor of Christinanity. The islamic wave has paradoxally started a immense response of the younger french who go back to their roots.
It's written that in the end times the number of believers will decrease.
A remnant will remain. Our Lord posed the question to his disciples "when the Son of man returns do you think he will find faith?" A prophecy in this in think.
Yes indeed Catholics are many but very few are Intellectually Brilliant in knowing & Defending our Faith & Religion...
It's not a question of intellectual brilliance but one of learning the Faith well enough to defend and transmit it.
God bless! ✝️
The Netherlands is not part of Scandinavia. The Scandinavian countries are Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Some include Iceland in that listing but not the Netherlands.
And Finland
No, Finland is not Scandinavian either linguistically or culturally.
Go Latvia 😊😊
And when all these non church goers show up on Christmas and Easter they are not kept from communion.
That's because god loves money and as long as churches can take in a few extra bucks, all is forgiven.
@@paulkoza8652Slander is a sin.
Latvia, Switzerland, Brazil, France and Netherlands -- lowest attendance.
There's no surprise on none of those, sadly. And here my own Portugal is only marginally better, to say the least...
The fruits of Vatican II. France is particularly noteworthy as it was once the
most Catholic country in Europe. Recently they proudly enshrined the right
to abortion (baby-killing) in their Constitution.
This has been coming for over 100yrs
No France is messed up because of the French revolution which is derived from the Protestant revolution.
Vatican 2 is based!
The gap between Protestant and Catholic commitment to the Church in the Netherlands is huge! Can anyone help me explain this phenomenon??!
distrust of institutions in general has been growing in the world, and catholicism is not just seen as a religion but the catholic church is seen as the most institutionalized version of it, similarly to the distrust of the state or the government distrust hits catholics more than protestants where the very idea is decentralization and self governance
@@fixpontt That's an interesting explanation! I think it's part of it though, what I noticed for example is that many Catholic raised in the NL, in the Catholic majority parts, people have a very limited understanding of who Jesus is, a kid in a crib instead of our saviour. They look at Catholicism more as a culture then a religion that encourages a personal relationship with God.
What's interesting though, the most faithful Catholics I've met lived in the protestant area's! There they are actually well organised.
RETURN TO TRADITION. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. 🙏🙏🙏
5:51 What do you mean here with Scandinavia? The Netherlands is not in Scandinavia. Any school child knows that or at least should.
So you left all the information the video and this is the only thing that attracted you. You are pathetic. Moreover, even though the Netherlands is in not Scandinavia yet the low church attendance there mimic the loss of Faith in Scandinavia. Wake up
2:08 Why is there a woman dressed up as a priest? I have noticed this in Germany too. This is of course contrary to canon law.
Trying to be smarter than Jesus Christ ??
I haven’t seen a priest with that outfit, but that outfit clearly isn’t something she slapped on.
@@zacharyahearn4069 It is called a cope and is worn by priests in a procession.
@@stephanottawa7890 Is it exclusively worn by priests or could it be worn by nuns too?
@@zacharyahearn4069 Carmelite nuns wear a cloak that looks similar, but it is not a liturgical cope.
What is wrong with the Netherlands?
There's nothing wrong with the netherlands
They want to become Africa 2.
I see almost Dutch they are liberal. Liberals like in many countries they don't believe in God
They enjoyed prosperity for too long. So they forgot, life is short.
France didn't exist in 2nd century, the Franks didn't even arrived to the Gaul region at that time and it was part of the Roman Empire. France was born during 8 and 9 century.
The First official Christian Kingdoms in history were Armenia 🇦🇲 (306 AD) and Ethiopia 🇪🇹 (314 AD) both Orthodox nations ☦️
And Georgia. 319 state Religion
@@colmoneill191
You are right brother 🇬🇪
The country France didn’t exist but the land was still there. There was activity of Christians in the land that is now called France would be more accurate.
@@zacharyahearn4069
Yes the land was the Roman province of Gaul. There Christians there but they weren't Franks or French and they weren't a Kingdom or a nation yet as this video says. It is sad because if the Roman Church always says they are the ancient church of Jerusalem then why always ignore Armenia, Ethiopia and Georgia the real first sons of the Church ☦️
I expected Brazil, France, and especially the Netherlands to be on this list. I was not surprised. Concerning Switzerland, which had a slight Protestant majority until the late 1960's, the Protestants are doing even more poorly than the Catholics. Same with the Netherlands. From what I've heard in recent years, the Dutch are only 12% Catholic and 10% Protestant, and 70+% no religion. The Dutch were 61% Protestant in 1900. The Catholic Church in Brazil seems to be a hopeless cause. I did not think that France had much Protestant growth, I thought that such growth came chiefly from immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa.
You might add that although there is an abbey at St. Gall, there are no monks in the abbey.
Here in Hungary the Catholic Church lost much of its former esteem, as 35 years after the fall of Communism the Catholic Church did not acknowledge its collaboration with the Communist secret service - some people say there were no Catholic bishops - including the Primate of the Hungarian Church, the Archbishop of Esztergom - who were not agents of the Communist secret service.
It also does not help that most bishops support the Orbán regime.
I was in Switzerland recently and the german synode spirit has already taken over there
People we need to know/acknowledge: Heaven and Hell are real! YOUR CHOICE. Prayers for all people to understand and repent from the Great South Land of the Holy Spirit. COME HOLY SPIRIT COME by means of the Immaculate heart of Mary, your well beloved SPOUSE.
In the philippines some priests have children..
Does not surprise me. At the time of Henry VIII in England Cardinal Wolsey who was the King's chief minister had a mistress with whom he had a son and daughter. He got a title from the king for his son and put the daughter into a convent.
There were at least 1 Pope who fathred children..
YOU CAN BLAME: Martin Luther, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, all the anti-Popes, and their so-called “Novus Ordo” Circus Service, when you depart from Our Lord and Savior Holy Teachings & Traditions.
READ Holy Scripture (Douay Rheims Bible)
You are not a Catholic. You are no different than any other Protestant who isn’t it communion with the head of the Church on Earth.
5:49 The Netherlands is not part of Skandanavia.
What about Mexico...
Where do you place it in your list?
I was expecting to see Ireland there
Of these five countries, only two (France and Brazil) are traditionally Catholic. Latvia and the Netherlands are traditionally Protestant, Switzerland has both Catholic and Protestant parts, with Protestantism having a huge historical and cultural impact.
In Germany we now have 3 percent. Catholicism does have no more relevance in most parts of Germany.
The problem with religion in Germany is that the government takes tax money from the people and gives it to both the Catholic and Protestant churches. The German's are fed up with this, and rightly so. Religion has been picking the pockets of the masses for centuries only to enrich themselves. It's time that the rest of the world wakes up and sees religion for what it is - organized charlatanism and control.
Every century Germany is up to something.
Its not a metaphysical meaning void, its [Redacted and redacted] put in place in the 1970s.
Immortal evil plays long game thru its servile mortals.
Austria, previously a devout Catholic country, is in the same religious collapse.
Belgium ?
The Netherlands is not part of Scandinavia, that was a strange comment
Australia is definitely below 10%
What about Italy?
I can’t understand how Ireland hasn’t made your list?
Female priests is a contradiction.
Isn't missing mass on a day of obligation (every Sunday) a mortal sin? So those who are labeled Catholic in these countries but are failing to attend mass as is required, are damned, aren't they? They may go to confession, though I doubt they are, aren't being honest when they confess this sin unless it's accompanied by a sudden compliance with attendance. There are in actuality very few Catholics in these countries, or any place where there is poor mass attendance.
Judge not, lest you be judged. Remember that as you age.
@@lynnmeyers10 Did I say something that isn't a Catholic doctrine/dogma/true statement?
@ralf547 you can't be sure anyone is damned. Your basic premise may be correct, but just because you can't get to mass, it doesn't damn you is my thought.
That is what I meant by "Judge not..."
@@lynnmeyers10 everyone has to judge, how else can you help someone else unless you figure out if they believe truth or a falsehood, or if they outwardly live a life in rebellion of God's commandments? We can't judge based on our own standards. We have God's law, commandments, and gospel by which to judge. Imperfectly for sure, but we are His workmanship, created for good works and loving our neighbors is the ultimate good work and it involves correcting them according to God's truth. At the same time, we can be correcting ourselves and might even be corrected by those we are correcting if they turn out to be better versed and living better than we are.
@ralf547 to a degree, but not to the point of saying you are damned because you aren't in Church on Sunday. That is God's judgment call from him to you. If you can't go, you aren't damned.
They Just Take it for granted, I don't know why, Because Some people Risk their lives to attend the mass,
"Rome losed the faith" - Mosenhor Lefebvre
Lefebvre and Martin Luther. Muhammad was pretty critical too.
Thank you, Vatican II.
I'm genuinely interested, what's your spiritual practice like? What church do you attend?"
@@AlisonPaschal
Eastern Orthodox
[Hasn’t read Vatican II, but has adopted some schismatic rando’s interpretation of Vatican II]
@@henrybn14ar I'm delighted to introduce myself as a faithful Eastern Orthodox who loves God with all my heart. Miami, Florida, is my hometown, but I now live in Canada. What about you?"
So much for the hope of Pope John XXIII that the council would see a renewal of the faith and be taught with ever greater clarity and without attenuation.
Lies make any objectives unreachable.
The best way to end up at the wrong destination is to ignore the signs or follow a map that is false and does not describe the terrain to be traveled.
Truth is the fundamental tool that enables us to plot a direction in life and build a life that is worth living.
This sounds the most generic bot comment possible. I think you could post this on every video.
@@zacharyahearn4069 I sat down some time ago to write out what i believe and why.
@@zacharyahearn4069 One of my touchstones to distinguish between truth and error is that truth is characterized by being simultaneously simple and deep, while error is mischaracterized by being simplistic and complicated.
As Malachy Martin said "Confusion, it would seem, is a prime weapon of evil.
Sex is confused with gender. Spirit is confused with psyche. Moral value is confused with absence of any value. Mystery is confused with untruth. And, in every case, rational argument is used, not to clarify, but as a trap, to foster confusion."
I find this pattern in much left wing discourse.
If you want to research the topic a good starting point is Ian McGilchrist's The Master and His Emmisary or his follow up books,
@@derkennedy1228 Just saying it was extremely vague. I don’t disagree with it at all.
Great. They understand it is useless.
This video depressed me 😢
There are very few true Catholics left in the world
Thank gad, right? LOL. I'm just joking (there is no gad!)
Evolve from devout Catholic to Christian Anarchist/ Consecrate yourself, heart, soul, mind and body to the Holy Spirit/ Jesus Christ is the original Christian Anarchist, high Priest of the Church/ Life is theological, not ideological/ God is not communist/
So a baptist
Yes it an awful shame
Evangelicals up, Catholics down. We have a doctrine problem. Denying this reality has become a full-time job for the magisterium.
Evangelicals are fairweather Christians. They'll convert to a different religion or just become atheists just as easily.
I'd say6 your real and serious problem is from all the abuse from priests.
The Netherlands is NOT a Scandanavian country
The Netherlands is not a Scandinavian country, as this obvious AI voice has stated. For an AI, it is rather ignorant.
Belief is a personal matter rather than bemoaning the low church attendance; the Catholic hierarchy should be happy that the state taxes collected on its behalf go toward maintaining the grand cathedrals and monasteries as well as the priests and bishops.
Even when masses were attended by many more communicants, then today, what is to say that many of those attending might also have been more cultural Catholics than true believers. Especially in those days when not publically professing the faith made people targets of the inquisition.
O dear thier god wont be happy so throw in the od 😂mirical would help stretch the billions they a.lready have ?
Le petit nombre.
I’ve concluded that what he says in the video isn’t factual. There must be several thousand people in the barangay I live in here in the Philippines. Occasionally my wife decides to go to mass and I’ll accompany her. We always see the same 40 or so women and children there. Only one other man attends. Perhaps part of the reason for such low attendance is that they only offer one Mass and it’s at 7:00 AM. A very unpopular time when many people are still in bed, sleeping in.
What’s not factual?
Great apostasy, anyone?
Nope.