I was searching the internet to find out how many Catholics there
are in the world, and several sites said 1.07 billion was
the most recent figure available. I thought I would share
this good news with the group.

James_Pape@hotmail.com (James) wrote:

I was searching the internet to find out how many
Catholics there are in the world, and several sites
said 1.07 billion was the most recent figure available.
I thought I would share this good news with the group.

The good news is that there are about 4 billion people
who are not catholic.

"CB" wrote in message news

James_Pape@hotmail.com (James) wrote:

I was searching the internet to find out how many
Catholics there are in the world, and several sites
said 1.07 billion was the most recent figure available.
I thought I would share this good news with the group.

The good news is that there are about 4 billion people
who are not catholic.

Don't worry about it where working on it

Jim Carew sfo

JMJ

"CB" wrote in message news

James_Pape@hotmail.com (James) wrote:

I was searching the internet to find out how many
Catholics there are in the world, and several sites
said 1.07 billion was the most recent figure available.
I thought I would share this good news with the group.

The good news is that there are about 4 billion people
who are not catholic.

Don't worry about it where working on it

Jim Carew sfo

"JCarew" <othmer@prodigy.net> wrote in message
JMJ

"CB" wrote in message news

James_Pape@hotmail.com (James) wrote:

I was searching the internet to find out how many
Catholics there are in the world, and several sites
said 1.07 billion was the most recent figure available.
I thought I would share this good news with the group.

A large part of those billion are in third world countries where
poorly educated people are easily fooled by cult nonsense.

The good news is that there are about 4 billion people
who are not catholic.

The bad news is that some of those non Catholics are even worse
off and even more deluded than the Catholics, they're Muslims...

Don't worry about it where working on it

Y'all had better work hard in the Boston area, lots of dioceses shutting
down there.

Jim Carew sfo

"JCarew" <othmer@prodigy.net> wrote in message
JMJ

"CB" wrote in message news

James_Pape@hotmail.com (James) wrote:

I was searching the internet to find out how many
Catholics there are in the world, and several sites
said 1.07 billion was the most recent figure available.
I thought I would share this good news with the group.

A large part of those billion are in third world countries where
poorly educated people are easily fooled by cult nonsense.

yup, but you forgot to mention all educated european countries with

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 04:29:10 GMT, "ChucklesPF1"
ChucklesPF1@Ihatespam.com> wrote:

"JCarew" <othmer@prodigy.net> wrote in message
JMJ

"CB" wrote in message news

James_Pape@hotmail.com (James) wrote:

I was searching the internet to find out how many
Catholics there are in the world, and several sites
said 1.07 billion was the most recent figure available.
I thought I would share this good news with the group.

A large part of those billion are in third world countries where
poorly educated people are easily fooled by cult nonsense.

yup, but you forgot to mention all educated european countries with
the exception of england, norway, sweden and finland the rest of
western europe is predominantly catholic you d.a.... oh, and you can
throw australia in there too who are mainly catholic....

On 25 Jun 2004 05:12:36 -0700, James_Pape@hotmail.com (James) wrote:

I was searching the internet to find out how many Catholics there
are in the world, and several sites said 1.07 billion was
the most recent figure available. I thought I would share
this good news with the group.


The good news is that there are about 4 billion people who are not
catholic.

The rcc is losing.
Christianity is winning.

"CB" <country2000@hotmail.com> wrote

The rcc is losing.
Christianity is winning.

Which typifies Danny's thinking that anything anti-Catholic is Christian.

But Danny's no follower of Christ and therefore, no Christian. He was among
those "who followed Jesus no more" when Jesus said we must eat His flesh and
blood in order to gain eternal life.

The number of baptized increased worldwide by 38 percent,
going from 757 million in 1978 to just over one billion, 17.3
percent of mankind, in 2000. Catholics represent 62.8 percent
of the population in the Americas, 40 percent in Europe and
2.9 percent in Asia.

Yup I was right.

I fail to see how you read a serious worldwide decline into those figures.

"Alan Ferris" <alan@spamddandd.com> wrote in message

The number of baptized increased worldwide by 38 percent,
going from 757 million in 1978 to just over one billion, 17.3
percent of mankind, in 2000. Catholics represent 62.8 percent
of the population in the Americas, 40 percent in Europe and
2.9 percent in Asia.

Yup I was right.

I fail to see how you read a serious worldwide decline into those figures.

In Europe there might be a localised secularisation going on, but this isn't
the global picture.

I fail to see how you read a serious worldwide decline into
those figures.

Then you need to realize that the world population grew by over > 42% in
the years 1978 to 2000, and catholic population only
grew by 38%. You're losing ground.

Only by a few percentage points. Did the growth in the world's population

"George Tirebiter" <Tirebiter7@nospam.netscape.net> wrote

I fail to see how you read a serious worldwide decline into
those figures.

Then you need to realize that the world population grew by over > 42% in
the years 1978 to 2000, and catholic population only
grew by 38%. You're losing ground.

Only by a few percentage points.

Did the growth in the world's population
occur in Catholic areas (Americas, Europe, parts of Africa) or in
non-Catholic areas (Asia and the Indian subcontinent)?

It's not just europe. South america used to be almost entirely catholic,
but protestant sects are growing rapidly there. Overall, it's certainly an
optimistic picture. Percentage of catholics worldwide is decreasing.
Diocesan priests worldwide declined nearly 12 and half percent. Nuns
dropped by 19% What's not to like about that? It's even worse if you look
at the median age of priests and nuns. They simply aren't being replaced as
fast as they leave or die. And they are falling way behind per capita. In
1978, there was 1 priest (both diocesan and religious) for every 1800
catholics. In 2000, it is 2500 catholics per priest. Obviously a lot of
these baptized catholics are inactive.

It's one of the reasons that I am so optimistic about the next pope.
Wojtyla stacked the college of cardinals and they are likely to elect
someone just like him. One can only hope that his successor will continue
the fine job of decreasing the percentage of catholics, and continuing the
downward trend of priests. Given their numbers and ages, nuns are already
on the endangered species list. Another 20 years like the last and the only
nuns you see will be stuffed and mounted in a display case in the natural
history museum next to the dodo bird.