In the United States, the national conference of Catholic bishops rejects the concept of gender transition, leaving many transgender Catholics feeling excluded.
If the Vatican could get away with running the order like they did in the 1950s where masses were in Latin and women were seen not heard they would. Changes by the Vatican aren’t due to an enlightenment; they are an act of self preservation. The young are less interested in religion and active members and tithes continue to freefall. Most American Catholics are only Catholic because they were born that way not because they give a rat’s ass about eating meat on a Friday. It’s the evangelical nutters that have broken away long ago when they realized that the wedding-and-funeral Catholics couldn’t be arsed to hate the right people.
They are the biggest group, but it’s a pretty diverse group with a wide range of beliefs. It covers the whole gamut from Evangelicals who declare anything that has ever made someone smile to be of the devil and the King James Bible to be the literal word of god to the hippy dippy churches that are cool with gay marriage and will say the whole bible is just metaphorical, so come play guitar with them at coffee hour before the church goes on a nature hike to do yoga and meditate on top of a local mountain. If you consider the denominations individually, Roman Catholicism is a larger denomination than the biggest Protestant denomination, at least according to Wikipedia.
Also worth considering how many people in all camps don’t really practice their professed faith and just keep saying they identify as follower of whatever creed anyway.
Maybe St. Malachy was onto something about the idea that this would be the last pope before the Catholic Church ends. I always figured that was just the whiskey talking.
Any day now the American Catholics will break away from the Vatican because of all these smart and modern ideas.
If the Vatican could get away with running the order like they did in the 1950s where masses were in Latin and women were seen not heard they would. Changes by the Vatican aren’t due to an enlightenment; they are an act of self preservation. The young are less interested in religion and active members and tithes continue to freefall. Most American Catholics are only Catholic because they were born that way not because they give a rat’s ass about eating meat on a Friday. It’s the evangelical nutters that have broken away long ago when they realized that the wedding-and-funeral Catholics couldn’t be arsed to hate the right people.
Isn’t protestantism the wider belief in the US?
They are the biggest group, but it’s a pretty diverse group with a wide range of beliefs. It covers the whole gamut from Evangelicals who declare anything that has ever made someone smile to be of the devil and the King James Bible to be the literal word of god to the hippy dippy churches that are cool with gay marriage and will say the whole bible is just metaphorical, so come play guitar with them at coffee hour before the church goes on a nature hike to do yoga and meditate on top of a local mountain. If you consider the denominations individually, Roman Catholicism is a larger denomination than the biggest Protestant denomination, at least according to Wikipedia.
Also worth considering how many people in all camps don’t really practice their professed faith and just keep saying they identify as follower of whatever creed anyway.
Maybe St. Malachy was onto something about the idea that this would be the last pope before the Catholic Church ends. I always figured that was just the whiskey talking.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes