Catholic Church, Corruption and Morality

[brownprose]

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Yeah most are right.

They are just so institutionalized. If the government was'nt around, they would probably be the same.

I hate it because they are always after everybody, even Catholics....

Also they meddle a lot with the governement. Nag politika nalang unta sila.

Posturing -- another character inherited by the CBCP from our politicians.

[pijavier]

Posturing -- another character inherited by the CBCP from our politicians.

I believe that if the CBCP focus more on the spiritual lives of the people rather than the polictical aspect, they can do a lot more change.

When church and religion mixes, the motives are then tainted...

[giddyboy]

now let's shift the topic to numbers...

Muslims more numerous than Catholics

By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press Writer Sun Mar 30, 2:48 PM ET, Yahoo News

VATICAN CITY - Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.
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"For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican's yearbook.

He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population — a stable percentage — while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.

"It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer," the monsignor said.

Formenti said that the data refer to 2006. The figures on Muslims were put together by Muslim countries and then provided to the United Nations, he said, adding that the Vatican could only vouch for its own data.

When considering all Christians and not just Catholics, Christians make up 33 percent of the world population, Formenti said.

Spokesmen for the Vatican and the United Nations did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment Sunday.

DO U THINK THIS IS BECAUSE some Catholics have changed to Protestants or other Christian faiths? or perhaps lesser active Catholics now especially the youth, the x-gen thinking its somewhat boring, antiquated Catholic morality teachings? or perhaps the numbers tell us that polygamy is the culprit in their population boom in Islam?

[istoryaaah]

This is the result of being rich and famous as contradictory to what we see in television... BRO daug2 man mga Pari BRO... Pero sa tinud-anay diay BRO datu pa ni silas POLITIKO BRO!!!!

hahahaha... faet!

[mannyamador]

All Filipinos -- including those in the Church -- have a right to speak out against the government's corruption. This rights applies to individuals and groups. Those who whine about "separation of Church and state" just want to silence the government's critics.