"When we need a labor leader we go to our parish priest..."

WHY DO CATHOLICS BECOME EVANGELICALS ?

Adapted from: Homiletic & Pastoral Review, article by Father Gerald J. Mendoza, December 2006.

"..when we need the word of God we go to the
Prostestant pastor."

WHY DO CATHOLICS BECOME EVANGELICALS ?

"In an article entitled The Glory and Power of the Gospel, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa -- preacher to the papal household -- in a retreat for 1,500 priests and seventy bishops has shockingly described the state of the Catholic Church in Latin America by noting that Catholics there proclaim that,

When we need a labor union we go to our parish priest; when we need the word of God we go to the Prostestant pastor,

"and that,

In Latin America the Catholic Church has made an option for the poor and the poor have opted for the Protestant Churches.

"Ralph Martin too, has noted that, in 1991, Pope John Paul II called a consistory to examine what could only be described as a hemorrhage of the Catholic faithful to Evangelical Protestantism."

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