/lit/ - Literature

>>12843326
You're exaggerating the problem, which of course is not surprising, given that the general position towards the Catholic Church in America is one of hatred.

But regardless, your pessimism is not as well-founded now as it would have been 20 years ago. The cleansing of the Church has begun. Traditional orders, like the FSSP, have exploded in membership. The Dominicans and the Franciscans are growing as well. Even the Jesuits are experiencing a renewal, where their seminaries are traditional.

The Church's overall membership in the United States is decreasing. But so what? How many of the people walking away are real Catholics? How many of them really follow the Church's teachings? Let them leave. All around the world, Tradition was almost killed in the 20th Century, but it was not fully killed, and now it sprouts up, like a flower whose roots weren't ripped out. Anyone who thinks the Catholic Church is dead does not appreciate the power of the Church, the Eternal Church, the Church that survived the desertion of the Apostles at Calvary. The Catholic Church can survive anything Satan throws at it. It has survived worse than its present crisis, and its present crisis will be survived.

>he doesn't like the African Catholics

>>12404223
But Francis himself represents a bit of a withered branch, doesn't he? He's a strong advocate of the Second Vatican Council, but he and so many of his allies are all very old now. So many younger laypeople, priests, and bishops are, at minimum, in agreement that Vatican 2 has been misinterpreted and many liberties have been taken with it. The trads seem to me to have more energy than the reformers.

And what about guys like Cardinal Sarah? He comes from an "underdeveloped" part of the globe, after all.

>>11864731
I have pederasts to strangle and shoot and dump in a mass grave, but I can take some time to post on /lit/.

>>11821848
lol

>>11654818
The purge of the Catholic Church has begun, brother. The last month was just the beginning. God has begun to cleanse His Church, and by the time he's finished every last pedophile, homosexual, and fornicator will have been driven out completely. It's going to be a long process, and at times a painful one, but it's completely necessary. Embrace it.

>>11549278
Orthodoxy keeps getting conquered and railroaded every time it tries to expand and send out missionaries. It's almost comical how they get fucked in the ass so repeatedly. Putin's doing it to them right now in Russia.

It sort of makes me think that they are probably not the One True Church, despite their long traditions and their fervent claims to be it. Would God really allow His Church to have so many horrible, crippling setbacks, setbacks that keep it from expanding into the world and making "disciples of all the nations"?

If you just look at things objectively, the One True Church has to be the Catholic Church. It has the long tradition that Orthodoxy has, but unlike Orthodoxy it hasn't been repeatedly gimped and roflstomped, and it's actually expanded out into the broader world and spread the Gospel to every continent. There are Catholics in every country on Earth, which you can't say about the Orthodox.

>>11482442
You're not gonna make it, Anon.

>>11284908
The Church put the Bible together, its authority surpasses that of Scripture.

>>11263630
He will terrify you with how devoted to God he is.