Catholic Church membership in Massachusetts suffers steep declines

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  • Опубликовано: 13 фев 2024
  • Pews in Catholic churches in the Boston area are sitting empty. What caused the exodus, and will parishioners return? Laura Haefeli reports.

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  • @YiriUbic3793
    @YiriUbic3793 4 месяца назад +25

    😂 the people that you show is the reason true Catholics had stop going to church because of weak clergy refusing to called all that out, but keep lying to yourself

    • @sarita5572
      @sarita5572 4 месяца назад +3

      💯🎯

    • @marisol033
      @marisol033 4 месяца назад

      Be a strong Catholic… do not put your faith in priests… they are human like you… they are weak just like us…we also represent the church… put your faith in Jesus

  • @josephdow9205
    @josephdow9205 4 месяца назад +32

    Stop the sexual abuse of kids by the clergy.

    • @sarita5572
      @sarita5572 4 месяца назад +2

      💯🎯

    • @chuckscott-cy7iq
      @chuckscott-cy7iq 4 месяца назад +4

      Stop the sexual abuse of boys by the clergy.*

    • @juliemccauslin5807
      @juliemccauslin5807 4 месяца назад +8

      ​@chuckscott-cy7iq you honestly believe little girls are safe in the hands of pastors of other, non-catholic churches? My mom would beg to differ

    • @marisol033
      @marisol033 4 месяца назад +4

      It’s not the church that failed humanity… remember god his the head of the church… it’s certain members that failed God…this is not new

    • @chuckscott-cy7iq
      @chuckscott-cy7iq 4 месяца назад +3

      @@marisol033 Nonsense.

  • @carolinel2530
    @carolinel2530 4 месяца назад +41

    I am thinking of going back to church. I think God is sending me some signs that I need to open my heart again. God bless us all.

    • @xenophonicus
      @xenophonicus 4 месяца назад +10

      Try a Latin Mass. Much more reverence for Christ and the Catholic tradition that built this faith

    • @marisol033
      @marisol033 4 месяца назад +2

      god is the head of the church… there will always be members who truly do not represent what it means to be a catholic. But Christ will never fail you. He loves you. The lord will guide your steps

    • @jamesmaranki526
      @jamesmaranki526 4 месяца назад +1

      Stay away. Don't go back. I am a Catholic in name only and proud of it.

    • @dag118
      @dag118 3 месяца назад

      You don't need the church to be close to God

    • @user-ur6lk7xf7t
      @user-ur6lk7xf7t 3 месяца назад +2

      I went back after 30-years about 10-years ago and I'm glad that I did. Try a couple churches out and go from there. Bless you.

  • @tacoman6333
    @tacoman6333 20 дней назад +2

    I am leaving the church because of the leniency of the church nowadays, Apple Watch Edition and conservatism. We don’t need the church to be like the world.

  • @Happy_HIbiscus
    @Happy_HIbiscus 4 месяца назад +15

    0:37 this is the protestant episcopal church ⛪ not catholic-

    • @ruthmaryrose
      @ruthmaryrose 3 месяца назад +2

      You’re right. I didn’t realize that the first time I watched this. This is a hit piece on the Catholic Church. If that quote by the archdiocese at the end is accurate then they made a mistake. They should have said that they teach the truth as taught by Jesus Christ.

    • @theduke6174
      @theduke6174 23 дня назад +3

      The people in the video are the ex Catholics , it has nothing to do with the church in the video.

    • @theduke6174
      @theduke6174 23 дня назад +2

      @@ruthmaryrose The people in the video are the ex Catholics , it has nothing to do with the church in the video.

  • @cruznature7545
    @cruznature7545 Месяц назад +4

    Church will not bend to liberalism, even if Boston will.

  • @user-gq7ql2wi1d
    @user-gq7ql2wi1d 4 месяца назад +35

    That’s so wrong to have a rainbow flag on the altar

    • @joefranks4235
      @joefranks4235 4 месяца назад +2

      The same reason I don't want a homosexual priest at the altar.

    • @sarita5572
      @sarita5572 4 месяца назад +3

      💯🎯

    • @muckyguru
      @muckyguru 4 месяца назад +3

      Originally the rainbow was a sign of God being present with us

    • @michaelhaywood8262
      @michaelhaywood8262 4 месяца назад

      @@muckyguru Originally maybe, but the alphabet stew brigade have hijacked it, and it is now demonic. Very inappropriate in Church.

    • @hemiolaguy
      @hemiolaguy 4 месяца назад +1

      @@michaelhaywood8262 Bigade? Demjonic? Vey innppropiate? Why should we listen to your take on religion when you butcher the English language?

  • @phyllis9750
    @phyllis9750 6 дней назад

    Good on you everyday people! You're up against the biggest bully on the planet!! Just awful.
    My thoughts are with the many victims.

  • @leoinsf
    @leoinsf 22 дня назад

    Fear is an important aspect of the Catholic Church!
    There was a time when fear drew people to attend church every Sunday!
    God is our Father and He loves us like a Father. What father would send his child to hell for all eternity!
    Fear of God is the Catholic teaching!
    What father would expect his son or daughter to visit him weekly!
    Basically, the Catholic picture of God is totally based upon ignorance and fear.
    Spare me that desecration!!!

  • @catholicfemininity2126
    @catholicfemininity2126 2 месяца назад

    If you live in this area, start praying the 4 Rosaries all 20 mysteries for a mass conversion of the neighborhood so the church won't close or pray that wealthy person donate to keep the church open. Do it EVERYDAY, or you might not have a church anymore. The choice is yours. No excuses like "I'm too tired from work/kids." Do you want the church to stay open and save souls or are you gonna let the devil lull you to sleep? Church is amazing and if there are bad leaders, then pray 4 Rosaries daily and contact the Bishop about changing the leaders of the church.

    • @leoinsf
      @leoinsf 22 дня назад

      Total and complete baloney!!! . . . Catholic baloney!!!

  • @user-jp5ip6qb5b
    @user-jp5ip6qb5b 4 месяца назад +3

    In South Korea, it's raining. Would desert be raining right now? Jesus in my heart in him in desert. Raining. Jesus, I trust in you. St. Faustina, Pray for us. Let us pray for the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy. What a beautiful looking Church, l may sound so silly but if l can, l would love to walk right into that Church. I am hurt by the strange sexual people but, l know of my own sexual sins, that I too have committed. Let us go to the confession for all our sins. What a lovely looking Church. I am dying to have one over here like that. Americans you are blessed. Don't waste it. ❤ Sabina

  • @barbie6391
    @barbie6391 23 дня назад

    The pope has not allowed same s e x marriages to be blessed, this has been clarified many times.

  • @spankflaps1365
    @spankflaps1365 4 месяца назад +18

    What has the Roman Catholics ever done for us?

    • @petermathews1515
      @petermathews1515 4 месяца назад +10

      Most young catholic boys had their first experience of sex in Roman catholic churches.

    • @AdamTru1
      @AdamTru1 4 месяца назад +25

      Preserved music, art, and architecture throughout the centuries. Funded the first universities and hospitals. Still funds education and hospitals. That’s a start.

    • @denisenoelle
      @denisenoelle 4 месяца назад +5

      Besides sexually abuse little kids? Not much.

    • @joefranks4235
      @joefranks4235 4 месяца назад +14

      The Catholic Church has preserved civilization, but of course you wouldn't know about history.

    • @astrinymris9953
      @astrinymris9953 4 месяца назад +1

      @@AdamTru1 All this art and history wouldn't have needed to be "preserved" if it weren't for the Catholic Church causing the Dark Ages by suppressing secular education for centuries.

  • @ruthmaryrose
    @ruthmaryrose 4 месяца назад +18

    As a lifelong Catholic I would not be attending that parish either. The purpose of the Church is to teach God’s laws which do not change. Any Catholic trying to say God’s laws have changed is a heretic.

    • @michaelhaywood8262
      @michaelhaywood8262 4 месяца назад +8

      Neither would I with the altar draped in the LGBT flag, very inappropriate.

    • @vladimirofsvalbard9477
      @vladimirofsvalbard9477 3 месяца назад +1

      they're trying to stay relevant lol

    • @hemiolaguy
      @hemiolaguy 2 месяца назад +1

      What about all those dietary laws in Leviticus that were repealed by God in Acts chapter 11? As time goes on, believers have come to realize more and more that God is a God of Love, Reconciliation and Inclusion -- even to people that have been outcasts in the past.

    • @Some-random-Scythian
      @Some-random-Scythian 3 дня назад

      Being Catholic is just as cringe as being transgender.

  • @Gnomezonbacon
    @Gnomezonbacon 2 месяца назад +2

    Can't stop touching little timmy.

  • @sarita5572
    @sarita5572 4 месяца назад +6

    I can tell you why with one look at that church. False prophets who are condoning filthy sin. REPENT OF YOUR SINS AND TURN TO JESUS!

  • @jeffreymagras711
    @jeffreymagras711 4 месяца назад +3

    back tothe latin massand the old days

  • @z8msban
    @z8msban 4 месяца назад

    pray for you, god bless

  • @James-fk2ki
    @James-fk2ki 4 месяца назад +6

    The Latin Mass is always growing everywhere.

  • @whome8444
    @whome8444 4 месяца назад +5

    God is everywhere.

    • @denisenoelle
      @denisenoelle 4 месяца назад +6

      Yeah, when you're delusional.

  • @andrewmartin2973
    @andrewmartin2973 4 месяца назад

    The scene in the report depicting incense rising is not in fact at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston; it is in fact, Grace Cathedral, an Episcopalian church in San Francisco! Really bad imaging and very misleading. It is an affront to Episcopalians. No wonder the flock is leaving in droves!

  • @shafur3
    @shafur3 4 месяца назад +1

    🙏🙏🙏🌹📿

  • @Joseph-es6mu
    @Joseph-es6mu 4 месяца назад +1

    God loves everyone.

  • @MichaelOMalley617
    @MichaelOMalley617 4 месяца назад +4

    The fact that this is even a question is extremely disturbing @cbsboston

  • @MW-eg4gu
    @MW-eg4gu 4 месяца назад +7

    If Father is not a traditional Catholic, sorry, he's part of the problem.

    • @DARWINZOO
      @DARWINZOO 4 месяца назад +1

      Who the Jesuit?

    • @xenophonicus
      @xenophonicus 4 месяца назад +1

      The traditional masses are full, it's people like you that are the problem. Just go be a Protestant

    • @ryanscottlogan8459
      @ryanscottlogan8459 4 месяца назад

      Another heretic.

    • @MW-eg4gu
      @MW-eg4gu 4 месяца назад

      @@ryanscottlogan8459 Please explain why I am a heretic?

    • @ryanscottlogan8459
      @ryanscottlogan8459 4 месяца назад

      @@MW-eg4gu Not you.The priest.

  • @MWB18
    @MWB18 4 месяца назад

    Boston is blessed to have His Eminence, Cardinal Sean as their Archbishop, along with His Excellency, Bishop Reed. I pray that the People of Boston seek the truth and return home to the church.

  • @marisol033
    @marisol033 4 месяца назад +1

    Some Catholics want to change Gods principles…since God made it clear that having an issue intimate relationship was forbidden to take place among his children… we cannot bend his rules…at this point we are disobeying God… just like Adam and Eve did… we cannot trust our own logic because God is the true logic. Humanity always gets it wrong without Gods wise words. If he says it is not right…. Nothing we do will make him change his point of view

  • @pancracedewinter7581
    @pancracedewinter7581 4 месяца назад +6

    What a bias documentary. Couldn't be more bias. Despicable.

  • @user-gq7ql2wi1d
    @user-gq7ql2wi1d 4 месяца назад +3

    This is so wrong

  • @dannyiselin
    @dannyiselin 4 месяца назад

    70 years ago you had no options for "salvation" outside of Holy Mother Church. Now we have so many ecclesiastical options and no censure of going to hell unless you submit to Rome...Follow the $$$$. No revenue = CLOSED FOR BUSINESS.

  • @dag118
    @dag118 3 месяца назад +4

    Sick of hypocrisy, no longer a Catholic.

    • @catholicfemininity2126
      @catholicfemininity2126 2 месяца назад

      What's the hypocrisy? Humans are sinners, and we chase God because we wanna be good and holy. The church is a hospital for sinners, and yes, we all are hypocrites because we sometimes say things we don't mean. Athiests, agnostics, cultists, buddhists, etc... we're all hypocrites because we sin. We aren't perfect. But we Christian Catholics try to strive to be SAINTS.

  • @ltaproductions7989
    @ltaproductions7989 4 месяца назад +3

    Reject modernity embrace tradition, repeal vatican II

  • @childofmary7959
    @childofmary7959 3 месяца назад

    The Church is the Bride of Christ. The Church is meant to remain a rock in the midst of the culture that surrounds it. It shouldn’t change with every whim. The Church absolutely loves these people that you show. But it also requires that they abstain from sins that separate them from God. God actually does know what is best for us, and He never changes.

  • @fallenangel7884
    @fallenangel7884 4 месяца назад +8

    Good. People are finally waking up from this religious fairytale.

    • @erikbrim8381
      @erikbrim8381 4 месяца назад +1

      No fairytale is being taught in catholicism

    • @fallenangel7884
      @fallenangel7884 4 месяца назад +4

      @@erikbrim8381 Says the kid that has been brainwashed by the fairytale.

    • @erikbrim8381
      @erikbrim8381 4 месяца назад

      No everything I do is my choice.

    • @maxipaw-dc5xj
      @maxipaw-dc5xj Месяц назад

      Yes,.. I agree 😄😄

    • @erikbrim8381
      @erikbrim8381 Месяц назад

      @@fallenangel7884 what has led you to think that God doesn’t exist

  • @ryanscottlogan8459
    @ryanscottlogan8459 4 месяца назад +5

    Heresy Heresy Heresy

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet359 3 месяца назад

    Christ tells us to love the sinner, not the sin. This travesty cannot e condoned or continued or the Catholic church will eventually disappear.

  • @jduffyification
    @jduffyification 4 месяца назад +3

    Pope Francis is delighted to see Church attendance decline. His efforts to sow confusion, foment division and dilute the Gospel are paying off...

  • @nbr8425
    @nbr8425 2 месяца назад

    So Boston has fallen to modern liberalism and the masses have decided to embrace said liberalism. That’s the reason. Kyrie Eleison…

    • @flatearthisahoax4030
      @flatearthisahoax4030 19 дней назад

      That's good. Join the program or be left behind. Just like what's happening in Europe, more atheists than religoons 😂

  • @massigatandiogora2527
    @massigatandiogora2527 3 месяца назад

    Was Jesus a Catholic? Would he approve of it?

  • @juliemccauslin5807
    @juliemccauslin5807 4 месяца назад +4

    Love the sinner, hate the sin

    • @timothyobrien9183
      @timothyobrien9183 4 месяца назад +1

      Impossible

    • @erikbrim8381
      @erikbrim8381 4 месяца назад

      @@timothyobrien9183No that’s what we are called to do, this world today may not know this but it is the truth.