TWO MILLION EXIT FROM CATHOLIC CHURCH IN US

Two million faithful flee from the Catholic Church. The sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church have caused a haemorrhage of faithful in the United States.news

It is bad time for the Catholic Church. The picture of the Catholic Church is being distorted by the child abuse. But Pope Benedict XVI has accepted and asked for forgiveness in name of the Catholic Church and has promised ‘Zero tolerance’ towards the abuser priest. Child abuse cannot be the only reason that people flee from the Catholic Church in United States because the child abuse is everywhere. It is there in the family and work place and so on... It is right for the Catholic Church to question itself and renew itself for the service of the people. 

Since the issue about the child abuse has projected big, we cannot take that is the only reason for the exit of the people. Exit of the Catholics from the Church is not new. And the Church cannot remain quiet and watching the exit of the people rather must introspect in to the exit of the Catholics and find out the problems. The church should take this opportunity to purify the church as it is rightly said by the Pope Benedict XVI that it is time for the purification of the Catholic Church. The new spirit should be blown in to the mission of the Catholic Church. The one of the reason may be a good approach and missionary character of the Baptist denomination which embraced the most of the Catholics who went of the Church this year. Likewise there may be problem concerning the ministers or the mood of ministry or service or the type of administration that tends people to leave the church. The root must be found out to resolve the perennial problem in the Church.