Baptisms, Marriages, and Seminarians Disappeared – Only Bishops Increase
Argentinean Archbishop Héctor Agüer, 81, writes in a March 25 comment about "the reality of the Church". Main points.
- After twelve years of Francis' pontificate, the Vatican reports are self-congratulatory, but the Church's decadence is evident.
- The seminaries are empty, and in Argentina there is a seminary that is one hundred years old, in which not a single seminarian has entered this year.
- Marriage no longer exists, now there are only "couples."
- The birth rate in Argentina has decreased: in 2023, with 460,902 births, the lowest number in the last 50 years was registered.
- There are few baptisms.
- There is no Christian culture left.
- The public presence of the Church is non-existent and media activists only mention the Church when they can quote political judgments against the current government.
- There are no Catholic thinkers who stand out, as, for example, Carlos Sacheri. He was murdered in 1974, as he was leaving Mass, in San Isidro, in front of his wife and seven …More
Archbishop Aguer: Vatican too full of 'self-praise' to recognize the serious decline of the Church. Amazing because every statistic measuring the vitality of Catholic belief and practice has been in freefall for sixty years.
Archbishop Aguer (enemy of Bergoglio already in Argentina) should have been made a Cardinal and is a staunch Defender of the Catholic Faith!
Pre conclave comments, telling the Cardinals to keep the true situation in mind when you vote.
Dearest Mother, please cover Christ's bride with your mantel. Dear Jesus have mercy on us!
God bless this man saying the truth... but, not to water down his birthday cake, but why he didn't said this 10 years ago? God forgive me for saying such a thing, but most priests now that the apostasy king is dying, everybody "comes out", now priests are telling it like it is, an apostate rule... Regardless, it is true, God bless him and all those who are true to the Lord.
The Holy Spirit told us starting in the 70s with the dramatic drop in church goers, clergy, and religious. Our bishops, so-called leaders, of The Church did not heed the Holy Spirit.
Good description of the New Springtime of Vatican II, using the New Evangelization, leading to the Civilization of Love,