It also could be that @roddreher overpessimizes the future of Western Christianity while being correct that absent dramatic internal reform the church is in no condition to assume the role that optimists envision for it.https://twitter.com/JeremyMcLellan/status/1023701273370083328 …
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Saying that "nobody really knows" how religion works, and therefore everything might turn out swell is whistling past the graveyard. God can do what He wills, of course, but we actually do have some pretty good ideas about how religion works 1/3
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I've taken a close look at some of these factors, and tried to analyze what's going on, and offer a prescription for the future. I might be wrong, but at least I'm trying to deal w/the world as it is, not saying, "Hey, ya never know." I prefer that to 2/3
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LARPing Pio Nono fetishists dreaming about establishing Catholic monarchy in an increasingly godless country where Catholics can't get even 40 percent of their people to go to mass on Sunday. (3/4)https://news.gallup.com/poll/232226/church-attendance-among-catholics-resumes-downward-slide.aspx …
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It’s a way of saying “no” to what we’re living through. In this quote from the Centurions (1960), all the prisoners (inc atheists and Muslims) go to mass in a communist PoW camp. The “tradcat” persona (merely adopted online sometimes) is an incoherent way to resist.pic.twitter.com/b4A4QeNBKW
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