(January 16, 2015 at 6:26 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I might have mentioned it before, one of the recent selling points the Vatican has been making is all the diversity with the new bishops and Cardinals. Thing is most of them are coming from less educated and poorer countries.
Yeah well. They're outsourcing too. Only in Austria, where I live, they're losing 54.000 members a year according to recent statistics. With Austria being a small country with only 8 million people, this figure is rather high.
But the Catholic church has one advantage compared to other more literal denominations. They've made an art out of bending and shaping.