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Church scandals, a good thing?

  • 20-01-2013 4:24pm
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    newmug
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    I was thinking about this recently. Is it possible that all the recent scandal the Church has been involved in might have actually done some good? Every time I go to mass, the Church seems fuller. I see people going to confessions again, something that was almost extinct a few years ago. Today, our church was so full there were people kneeling in the aisles. Yes, kneeling!!! And yesterday, I was up at the anti-abortion rally, and althought it wasn't exactly a religiously themed event, there definately was a religious aspect to the whole thing. And 25K people attended, thats 1% of the entire adult population of the country!!!

    My thoughts are that the recent events in the Church have shaken people up, they have made people re-evaluate what their relationship with God means to them. While a large contingent have fallen away into athiesm, an even larger proportion have had a re-awakening of sorts, and are actively practicing their beliefs and faiths again. So much so, that Catholicism is well on its way to its former glory! Glory to God.

    What are your thoughts?
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