[nickysielicki]

Catholicism is dying. Even my grandmas friends, devout Polish immigrants, are willing to express some confusion and doubt about the direction of Catholic dogma after a few drinks. If you take the religion seriously, it just doesn’t make sense anymore.

It isn’t even really Catholic dogma anymore to assert that the Catholic Church is the only path to salvation. The Pope regularly talks about Christians broadly and defends Protestantism. For those of us that were taught differently, we just kind of nod our heads and take the gaslighting.

Some priest dropped one word and it’s going to cause a lot of strife for the Catholics in phoenix that were impacted. Yet we went from prayers in Latin to every language under the sun and nobody bats an eye at what was lost in translation there? There are a lot of (now outdated) catechisms that warned against this.

[evgeniysharapov]

I don't think it's dying - it thrives in Global South (Africa, S. America) The biggest undoing for Roman church was to succumb to theological innovations. It started a while ago and probably irreversible (see Vatican 2). I see many Catholics and protestants coming to Orthodox Church for the reason of "immutability" - the Ancient Church with Tradition that spans over almost two millennia and theology that did not change and will not change.

[alkaloid]

And to this point, those who have asked for a return to "immutability" within the Roman church have been pilloried, mocked, and continually derided by the current Pope and his henchmen.

[alkaloid]

> It isn’t even really Catholic dogma anymore to assert that the Catholic Church is the only path to salvation.

The dogma hasn't changed, the stomach of modernist clerics has. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus is in force, no matter how many times the Pope kisses the Koran.

> Yet we went from prayers in Latin to every language under the sun and nobody bats an eye at what was lost in translation there?

Well said.