Campanha em O Pope (THE POPE IN CAMPAIGN)
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
The news that follows is interesting. Benedict XVI calls Catholic bishops do more to work with Catholics as a mile away is the Protestant churches are taking their "sheep." 
A visit Ad Limina Apostolorum ("Aos mounds two apostles") é uma Bispos Obrigação two Catholics, every five years Vão years estariam buried locais onde São Pedro e São Paulo e com or potatoes will find me. But a round of Bispo do Sergipe and Bahia ao Vatican, do not start month, Fuju routine because of an appeal by Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI. He demanded a greater effort to bring back former faithful to the Catholic flock in Brazil. "Sometimes the baptized are not enough. People become easily influenced and owners of a weak faith, "Benedict said.
what many Brazilians have moved to Pentecostal and evangelical churches in traditionally Catholic country, where popes are usually greeted by crowds? Brazil is still the largest Catholic nation in the world with 140 million adherents, but nearly 20 million left the Catholic Church between 1994 and 2007, according to the institute Datafolha. "Competition is great. In Juazeiro, there are ten priests and 200 pastors, "said Don Jose Geraldo da Cruz, bishop present at the meeting with Benedict XVI. "He told us that we must be closer. But it's hard. "Theologian Leonardo Boff, who was punished in the 80's and left the church for his advocacy of liberation theology, says that the language used in masses and the scandals of sexual abuse contribute to wear the image of the institution. "The church has a very abstract view of reality. The people do not understand. And pedophilia is a complete demoralization. " On a visit last week to the United Kingdom, where there have been several reports of abuse, Benedict XVI said that "the Church authorities were not fast enough to take the necessary measures" (read the column by Christopher Hitchens).
The Rio pedagogue Regina da Silva, 28, 14 is changed by the Adventist Church. "Here we are concerned about our health, love life, food," she says. For Marcelo
of Grace, another former Catholic and now leader of the Assembly of God in Penha neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Catholic worship is boring for young people. "In the Assembly, joyful worship one God, the Catholic one God died on the cross." changes championed by priests "modern", as Marcelo Rossi and Fabio de Melo, who are considered for developments left Catholicism. The charismatic movement in Brazil draws crowds to worship and concerts. But Benedict is opposed to this line. "He's right. There is the bark that makes the content. We can not have something still, we need either pure choreography, "says Don Jose Geraldo. For now, the Church is still trying to figure out how to make the appeal of Benedict XVI does not fique restrito a protocol com um Bispo never found inside the Vatican do
Source:
http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,, EMI172854-15 228, 00 -O + PAPA + EM + CAMPANHA.html
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