Ashley Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 From my experience, the Catholic Church seems to be all or mostly white. As in race being European. I don't know why this strikes me as odd. I guess I would expect it to be more "universal" and multicultural. The church I occasionally attend is mixed racially, we have a large African-American attendance as well as people with European ancestry, and some with Asian ancestry. I am saying this because today I was talking to a good friend about Christian churches, and how they are all over the world. We got into the subject of how Catholic Parishes seem to exist in Europe and in America where there was European immigration and that's it. I just thought that was interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted April 16, 2004 Author Share Posted April 16, 2004 South America too, of course. But that is where there was heavy Spanish missionary activity to subdue and convert the Indians. My historical facts (or lack thereof) have been critiziced before on this site, but I think there is no doubt about the fact that the Spanish used extreme force to subdue and convert? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted April 16, 2004 Author Share Posted April 16, 2004 Catholic church attendance in Europe is declining drastically. In South America too. Any insight as to why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricdisk Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Many people during Jesus' time saw Jesus work miracles. They knew about him feeding the multitudes with loaves and fishes. He healed the blind, sick and the lame. Brought the dead to life. --And yet, only a few people followed Jesus and believed in him. Any idea why?? === Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benedict_x Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 [quote name='Ashley' date='Apr 15 2004, 06:36 PM'] From my experience, the Catholic Church seems to be all or mostly white. As in race being European. I don't know why this strikes me as odd. I guess I would expect it to be more "universal" and multicultural. The church I occasionally attend is mixed racially, we have a large African-American attendance as well as people with European ancestry, and some with Asian ancestry. I am saying this because today I was talking to a good friend about Christian churches, and how they are all over the world. We got into the subject of how Catholic Parishes seem to exist in Europe and in America where there was European immigration and that's it. I just thought that was interesting. [/quote] Have you been all over the world and seen all the catholic parishes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thicke Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 HM.....This is not true in my Parish. There are Filipinos (the Philippines is 88% Catholic, yet the people who live there are Asian), African-Americans, East Indians, Native Americans, as well as Jewish converts. Also, don't forget the Eastern Catholic Churches in places like Syria, Iraq and Israel. The people in those Churches are hardly from "European stock". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willguy Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 The Catholic Churches in parts of America are primarily white because parts of America are primarily white. It ain't rocket science. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5 Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Hmmm...I've also been wondering why those Black churches were primarily black... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewReformation Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 [quote name='L5' date='Apr 15 2004, 07:36 PM'] Hmmm...I've also been wondering why those Black churches were primarily black... [/quote] Probably cultural reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immaculata Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Our city has a larger Lebanese population than Lebanon. They're all Catholic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesar624 Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 My parish is EXTREMELY diverse. We have people from most of South America and the Carribbean, many black parishioners, Koreans, Chinese, Arabs, Indians...I don't know what you're talking about. Relax with trying to bash the Church in stupid little things like this. Until you've seen every Catholic Church there is, then speak about the cultural diversity in all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seatbelt Blue Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Ashley, every been to Africa? The reports coming out of Africa are quite positive; the Church grows in leaps and bounds down there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seatbelt Blue Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Aside from that, my parish happens to be fairly diverse, which is odd considering how whitebread Chesterfield as a whole is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewReformation Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Guys, she was just making an observation from her personal experience. Until I spent some time in Chicago, I figured Catholicism to be mainly a Mexican and White folk thing. Call in the attack dogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iacobus Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Catholics see as there are 1 billion in name must be pretty diverse by size alone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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