The Facts
Sunday Mass Attendance among Catholics:
1958: 3 out of 4 people
2002: 1 out of 4 people
Willfully missing Holy Mass on a Sunday or Holy Day of Obligation is a mortal sin.
Lay Religious Teachers who Condone:
Contraception: 90% (Contraception is a mortal sin and closely related to murder.)
Abortion: 53% (Abortion is murder.)
Divorce and “re-marriage“: 65% (Holy Matrimony exists until death. To “re-marry” is nothing else but to live in adultery.)
Missing Mass: 77%
Catholics Aged 18–44 who Do Not Believe in the Real Presence:
70%
(i.e. the vast majority of Catholic youth believe heresy.)
Number of Annulments:
1965: 338
2002: 50,000
An annulment is the recognition that a true marriage never existed in the first place. If a bishop obtains bogus annulments, he is a false shepherd leading his flock into adultery.
Priests in the U.S.:
1930–1965: Doubled to 58,000
1965–2002: 45,000
2020 Projection: 31,000, half will be over 70 years old
Priestless Parishes:
1965: 1%
2002: 15%
Ordinations in the U.S.:
1965: 1,575
2002: 450
Seminarians:
1965: 49,000
2002: 4,700 (down by 90%)
Seminaries:
1965: 600
2002: 200
Sisters (Nuns):
1965: 180,000
2002: 75,000 (Average age is 68)
Teaching Nuns:
1965: 104,000
2002: 8,200 (down by 94%)
Jesuits:
1965: 3,559
2002: 389
Christian Brothers seminarians:
1965: 912
2002: 7
Franciscans:
1965: 3,379
2002:84
Number of Catholic High Schools:
Down 50%
Number of Catholic Parochial Schools:
Down 4,000
Number of Catholic marriages:
Down 33%
(Statistics from the Index of Leading Catholic Indicators: The Church Since Vatican II, Kenneth C. Jones.)
Fatima is a dreadful ultimatum to the world to stop sinning. The enormity of mankind's rebellion against God and God's infinite hatred of sin is the foundation of the Fatima message. In His infinite mercy, God gives the world one last hope in the Immaculate Heart of Mary (