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The Catholic Church has a proud history, proud not of the Godly and spiritual sense but of the temporal. Afterall, this same church was the one and same as the Roman Empire. A casual check of history would reveal that this supposed religious organization started out as a tool by the Roman Emperor Constantine to consolidate power and to control disagreements between two groups. For a few thousand years, this empire in the guise of religion grew by forcibly “converting” pagan to their own form of Christianity. This form of Christianity is of course paganism in disguise. This has been proven not only on this blog but in many books written by notable writers as well as other blogs. But those glory days are long gone and the steady decline of this pagan based religion continues today. A quick browse of the news and blogs would reveal countless proof of this steady decline. In this blog entry I will quote a few starting with their title and then the pertinent information relevant to the subject of this blog. Here’s goes:

Steady Decline

Parishioners ‘hurting’ over transition to one church

By David Robinson
The Evening Telegram
New! Mon Jan 04, 2010, 10:09 AM EST

St. Johnsville, N.Y. -

St. Patrick’s Church in St. Johnsville and St. Peter’s and Paul’s Church in Canajoharie will both close Feb. 14 and their congregations are being asked to begin worshiping at St. James Church in Fort Plain.
But at least one parishioner said she does not intend to follow the plan, which is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany closure over the last year of 17 percent, or 33 of 109, of its churches.
Grace Archambault, 80, of St. Johnsville, said she is planning to begin attending services at Holy Family Parish in Little Falls. And when she can not make it there, Archambault said she is considering worshipping at St. Paul Lutheran Church in St. Johnsville.
Archambault explained her intentions in a letter to the diocese, citing a mishandling of the closure as part of the motivation for her choice.
“I didn’t desert my church, my church deserted me,” she said in a telephone interview.
The three parishes in October merged financially, forming a single parish named Our Lady of Hope, and began the process of deciding which church would remain open. A pastoral council, consisting of representatives from the three congregations, met to discuss the closures.
But Archambault said the process was insensitive, especially to long-time members of the churches.
“People have spent their whole lives in their churches,” she said, referencing many having been baptized and married under the same roof. “This is like their second home.”
Margaret DiGiacomo, 64, said she has been with St. Patrick’s for all 64 years of life, and the closures have impacted a lot of her friends, family and fellow parishioners. “The people here are really upset over the way this was handled,” she said, “it’s been very discouraging.”

Laity-led church

Tuesday December 29 2009
The slow drip of clerical scandals and its final conclusion with the Murphy report has led me to the inevitable conclusion that the Catholic Church, as we know it, is dead.
This, I feel, is a very good and necessary development.
If Christ the man were to come back today and walk into the Vatican he would immediately turn around and walk the other way. He would have been confronted with big, gaudy buildings with all the pagan trappings of gold and wealth.
He would have sensed power, pomp, inequality and secrecy.
He would have seen his church controlled by an exclusive, elderly gentleman’s club with an 82-year-old as its leader and the total exclusion of half of its members — females.

source:independent.ie

Irish Catholic Cardinal Daly brought Pope to Ireland but utterly failed on pedophiles
By
PATRICK ROBERTS
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Saturday, January 2, 2010, 9:26 AM
Updated Saturday, January 2, 2010, 8:28

Cardinal Cahal Daly, who has died aged 92, will also be remembered as the man who oversaw the most rapid decline in the history of the Catholic Church in Ireland because of the pedophile crisis.

Posted 11/7/2004 10:49 PM Updated 11/8/2004 5:28 PM

Church struggles with change
By Cathy Lynn Grossman and Anthony DeBarros, USA TODAY

Today there are fewer parishes and fewer priests than in 1990 and fewer of the nation’s 65 million Catholics in those pews. And there’s no sign of return.”

Nine-Year-Old’s Abortion Outrages Brazil’s Catholic Church
By Andrew Downie / São Paulo Friday, Mar. 06, 2009

Time/CNN

Brazilian devotion to the Catholic Church has declined over the past several years. Whereas Brazil was once an almost entirely Catholic nation, only 74% of Brazilians today admit allegiance to Rome, with large numbers, especially the urban poor, having defected to Protestant Evangelical sects. Many more water down their Catholicism with dashes of African religions such as Candomble or spiritist beliefs such as Kardecism.

December 24, 2009
This Christmas, 78% of Americans Identify as Christian
Over time, fewer Americans identify as Christian; more have no religious identity
by Frank Newport
Gallup.com

The trend results are based on annual averages of Gallup’s religious identity data in America that stretch back over 60 years. One of the most significant trends documented during this period is the substantial increase in the percentage of American adults who don’t identify with any specific religion. In 1948, only 2% of Americans did not identify with a religion. That percentage began to rise in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Eleven years ago, in 1998, 6% of Americans did not identify with a religion, a number that rose to 10% by 2002. This year’s average of 13% of Americans who claim no religious identity is the highest in Gallup records.

The percentage of Americans who identify as Catholic, Protestant, or some other non-Catholic Christian faith has been concomitantly decreasing over the years. This suggests that one of the major patterns of religious transition in America in recent decades has been the shift from identification as Christian to the status of having no specific religious identification.

In 1948, 91% of Americans identified with a Christian faith. Twenty years ago, in 1989, 82% of Americans identified as Christian. Ten years ago, it was 84%. This year, as noted, 78% of all American adults identify with a Christian faith.

There has also been a slight increase in the percentage of Americans who identify with a religion that is not specifically classified as Christian. Sixty years ago, for example, 4% of Americans identified with a non-Christian religion. By 1989, 9% of Americans were in this non-Christian religion category, the same percentage as today.

And there you go. News items in the last 5 years indicating the Catholic Church’s steady decline which by projection will result in the eventual and complete disappearance of the once mighty Roman Church, the same way it’s previous incarnation, the Roman Empire.

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