re: Pope Francis removes Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, head of the Doctrine of the Faith

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But I'm hopeful and I'd like to see how it plays out. I understand many are not happy with this, but the Catholic Church is more popular than ever now, with many more lapsed Catholics returning to the fold.

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I'm not really sure that I agree with everything this pope is doing/saying, but I think any Catholic will agree that if we had kept doing what we were doing in 80 years the Catholic church would have been pretty slim. We had basically 0 people in our parish attending mass that were under the age of 30.

We got a new priest who is less conservative. He's not make women priests liberal, but he is a priest that prefers to dress like normal people when not celebrating mass, he goes to schools and gets on the student's levels to help them understand the formation of faith and the importance of Christ in their lives. He has increased the attendance of young people at our church tremendously.

Still when I attend mass at other parishes while I'm travelling I still see masses with no children. You can bet that more often than not these parishes are run by guys that wear cassocks 24/7, act aloof around all parishioners (of course he's the priest better than the lay people right???), and says more tridentine masses than standard masses in English that the congregation can understand, truly reflect on, and live their lives by.