Catholic Church Losing Ground in Latin America
[Catholic
Church Losing Ground in Latin
America Proclaiming the Gospel
Ministries]
"In just one generation, Latin
America has seen the number of
people who identify themselves as
Catholic plummet, with more people
becoming Protestant or dropping
religion altogether. The shift is
dramatic for a region that has long
been one of the bastions of
Catholicism in the world. With more
than 425 million Catholics, Latin
America accounts for nearly 40% of
the global Catholic population.
Through the 1960s, at least 90% of
Latin Americans were Catholic, and
84% of people surveyed recently by
the Pew Research Center said they
were raised Catholic. But a recent
report found that only 69% of Latin
Americans still consider themselves
Catholic, with more people switching
to more conservative Protestant
churches (19%) or describing
themselves as agnostic or
religiously unaffiliated (8%)." Pro-Gospel.org
Response to comment [from a Catholic]: "Thanks serpentdove."
You're
welcome.
See:
One World Government & Religion
"Have you heard they are going to find Peter's bones in Baghdad? And the pope will move there unite with Islam and create the one world religion. You should be all over this."
"How much for
one rib?" ~
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Response to comment [from a
Catholic]: ""The position of the
church as attested to in any of the
church's formal teaching is and has
always been Mary is not divine,
cannot save us, did not save
herself, and is not due the highest
form of reverence called latria.
When people see the word "worship"
in a religious context in English
they seem to assume it means always
means the highest kind due to God
alone, I've noticed."
"...In the
Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, Dr.
Ludwig Ott states, "In the power of
the grace of Redemption merited by
Christ, Mary, by her spiritual
entering into the sacrifice of her
Divine Son for men, made atonement
for the sins of men, and ... merited
the application of the redemptive
grace of Christ. In this manner she
co-operates in the subjective
redemption of mankind" (page 213).
Here the Catholic Church is claiming
that Mary, not Jesus, made atonement
for the sins of men! This is pure
blasphemy!
In 1854, Pope Pius IX established
the immaculate conception of Mary as
an infallible dogma, which states
Mary was preserved from inheriting
original sin. The dogma encourages
Catholics: "to venerate, invoke and
pray to the most Blessed Virgin
Mary, Mother of God, conceived
without original sin. And since she
has been appointed by God to be the
Queen of heaven and earth, and is
exalted above all the choirs of
angels and saints, and even stands
at the right hand of her
only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ our
Lord, she presents our petitions in
a most efficacious manner. What she
asks, she obtains. Her pleas can
never be unheard."
This heretical dogma has established
Mary as a co-redeemer with Christ
and co-mediator with Him in heaven,
which makes her an another way to
approach God..."
The Counterfeit Mary of Catholicism
