What Heaven is Like

[Taqiyya Mockingbird]

Reeling from sex-abuse scandals, the Roman Catholic Church is losing members in droves. Can it stem the decline?

Losing members in some nations != "In its death throes". That is where I have to roll my eyes.

Hemmorrhaging its membership in (HELLO: Educated!) Europe and America, while gaining members in (HELLO: Uneducated!) third world countries. And that is not the only reason to say it is in its death throes. They are literally BEGGING for people to enter the clergy and no one is biting. On the world stage, the Poop makes idiotic proclamation and the world laughs at him for it. People don't take him seriously as he does not deserve being taken seriously.

Yes, it does pad its numbers and it keeps rolls as well. Folks who leave stay on those rolls.

No they don't. Every parish takes note of how many families it has every single year. A lot of atheists seem to think the only way to get off the "rolls" is to be formally excommunicated, but this isn't true of the Catholic Church, at least in the US. Any parish which tried to "pad its numbers" would only end up more in debt to the Archdiocese, so...they really have no incentive to pad their numbers outside of trying to maintain some nebulous bragging right to "largest Christian denomination"...I guess? We are really, really far away from losing that one though.

This has been done to death elsewhere, and of course you steadfastly refuse to face and admit the facts. You ain't fooling anyone.

And it is not just MY assertion that the church considers folks who reject core tenets such as this transubstantiation bullshit as "not catholics", that is catholic church policy

No it isn't. It's poor catechesis, and, at worst, its heresy. But they are heretical Catholics. One of my Auxiliary Bishops advocates for female ordination. He's still a Catholic.

Blah, blah, blah. He won't be for long with this Poop.