[Magdalen] Latin Invasion?

[Jim Guthrie]

From: Scott Knitter

>I think on average RC parishioners are more liberal than the average RC
>bishop... In the USA
>On Jul 15, 2015 1:42 PM, "Lynn Ronkainen" <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

Certainly the independent polls agree with this assessment.

> Our RC brethren and sisteren are growing in number and large families are
> becoming the norm again, and if one reads up on international RC

Well, not in the United States, save fore the fairly substantial numbers of 
immigrant (documented and undocumented) from Latin America. Without that influx, 
they're be falling into the same tank and Mainline Protestants.

> developments, I think that US R Catholics are probably much more
> conservative than their foreign counterparts. For at least 10 years
> American bishops have been trying to not only roll back, but box up and
> toss out as time worn, many Vatican changes. It's not 'our parents RC' any
> more, it is our grandparents...

They had finally found a way to overcome the strong anti-RC views (Remember when 
most evangelicals preached the notion of the Pope would soon be revealed as the 
Anti-Christ?)  by making common ground with them on political and social issues.

Pope Francis is burying that relationship quickly. If you're interested in the 
details of how desperate some of the Bishops have become (as well as the 
conservative lay leadership people), double your meds and tune into EWTN.

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie