Thursday, 24 October 2024

EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS

 


Well, close but no cigar.

Robert, on his blog and in his latest post now published under the name Robert the sinner (we won't ask what he's been up to) seems to be lamenting the decline of his favourite Church - the Catholic Church and has come up with some statistics that the Vatican probably don't want anyone to see. Maybe that's Robert's sin?


Robert wrote:

11-year decline in worldwide priestly vocations continues
The number of major seminarians worldwide fell from 109,895 at the end of 2021 to 108,481 at the end of 2022, according to statistics published by the Fides news agency (CWN coverage). Between the end of 2020 and the end of 2021, the number of seminarians worldwide had declined from 111,855 to...


Worldwide baptisms fall over 15% in 6 years
The number of baptisms administered in the Church worldwide plunged from over 16 million in 2016 to 13,327,037 in 2022—a decline of 17% over six years, according to the appendix to statistics published by the Fides news agency (CWN coverage). There were 18.1 million baptisms in 1991,...

If he'd asked me anytime over the last 60 years I'd have said - "I told you so" but he didn't.

What I don't get though is that if the Catholic Church has falling numbers of dupes subscibers and then one assumes, less money to throw around,  then how come I received this letter today from a Catholic priest offering to give me money?





What's up peeps?

 

3 comments:

  1. Seems genuine to me.
    What a break for you!

    RBB

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    1. Yes. Maybe I can go on holiday with those beautiful Russian women who keep writing to me.

      TRC

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  2. Fr Robert is surprisingly hateful and suspicious of others. He doesn't even ask you to use the money to have Masses said for him.

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