Comments on: ‘Kiwis’ drift out of Church

By: John

John — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:05:39 +0000

Patrick Dunn is a very good man.
New Zealanders should be grateful that he has offered this insight.
The Catholic church all over is suffering these problems.
Tens of millions of pilgrims have visited a small Franciscan parish of Medjugorje from all over the world to hear the vital statistics :
Prayer, fasting, leading simple lives, and being reconciled to God each day.
Youth are supposed to navigate, but can’t. Between surf boards and other
distractions they eventually settle into a complacent matrimony dictated to by
the visual media, instead of the church.
So the answer is as always, return to the basics, and “abandon yourselves totally to me”
the call from above. Mother of Perpetual help.
The move must always be to turn inwards, to the inner way, the centre of all Christians
which is Christ.
When Christ is the motivator, the whole community changes.
The bread has a leaven, and it rises.
The world is in a denial of Christ, and this is the challenge of evangelism.
A spark has entered the church, and now it is a raging fire, and it is called catholic charismatic renewal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWcujx1II2w
If the Pope receives why not the flock?

By: Francis

Francis — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 03:40:05 +0000

Exactly – watered down Church Teaching, avoiding the “hard to hear” teachings of the Church eg Death, Judgement, Heaven, Hell, Plus false ecumenism, poor and even scandalous liturgies. If the issue was the time period we now live in, then the places and communities where the Traditional Latin Mass is said and where the Traditional Catholic Teachings were upheld would not have increasing numbers. Unfortunately the Bishops of NZ have their heads in the sand…and sadly at the expense of thousands of souls.

Returning to the centuries old practices, teachings, the Traditional Mass etc of the Catholic Faith is the only solution to reverse the crisis.

By: josmile

josmile — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 10:01:01 +0000

One of the reasons is poor catechesis for decades.
Why stay if even your parents don’t know what is important about being Catholic.
Poor Liturgies don’t help either.