Billy Graham - Rome's Friend and Fool
Billy Graham's next "mission" will be in Dallas, Texas, October 17-20. His mission website was contacted and asked if the Diocese of Dallas would participate. The Graham website answered that the diocese had been contacted and was asked to join in, but no reply was ever received, so the mission would proceed without any Catholic diocesan involvement.
This Dallas situation seems odd because the last Graham "mission" (Billy doesn't call them "crusades" anymore) in Cincinnati, Ohio, from June 27-30 had heavy involvement from the local Catholic archdiocese. For example, the Cincinnati archdiocese:
Provided four facilities for the Graham organization to hold counseling classes for Catholics -- Sent out mailers to 9000 Catholics, inviting them to participate in these classes -- Gave the mission coverage in the archdiocesan newspaper -- Received back from Graham for "follow-up" all names that listed "Catholic" on "decision cards."
Why was there Catholic participation in one place, and not in another? Demographics may provide the answer:
1. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati had a Catholic population in 1990 of 538,400, and in 2001 of 513,469.
2. The Diocese of Dallas had a Catholic population in 1990 of 253,956, and in 2002 of 843,167.
The answer could be that with a net loss of Catholic population, the Cincinnati archdiocese will use any means possible, even a Billy Graham, to scrounge up stray Catholics. Whereas the Dallas diocese, with growth fueled largely by massive and illegal Catholic immigration, does not need Graham. This is one example of why the US Catholic clergy supports the unlimited illegal immigration that is balkanizing the United States.
When will Protestant and Evangelical ecumenists realize that Rome really does not want them as friends, but only as tools and fools?
May our Lord protect the United States from the Roman Catholic Church.
This Dallas situation seems odd because the last Graham "mission" (Billy doesn't call them "crusades" anymore) in Cincinnati, Ohio, from June 27-30 had heavy involvement from the local Catholic archdiocese. For example, the Cincinnati archdiocese:
Provided four facilities for the Graham organization to hold counseling classes for Catholics -- Sent out mailers to 9000 Catholics, inviting them to participate in these classes -- Gave the mission coverage in the archdiocesan newspaper -- Received back from Graham for "follow-up" all names that listed "Catholic" on "decision cards."
Why was there Catholic participation in one place, and not in another? Demographics may provide the answer:
1. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati had a Catholic population in 1990 of 538,400, and in 2001 of 513,469.
2. The Diocese of Dallas had a Catholic population in 1990 of 253,956, and in 2002 of 843,167.
The answer could be that with a net loss of Catholic population, the Cincinnati archdiocese will use any means possible, even a Billy Graham, to scrounge up stray Catholics. Whereas the Dallas diocese, with growth fueled largely by massive and illegal Catholic immigration, does not need Graham. This is one example of why the US Catholic clergy supports the unlimited illegal immigration that is balkanizing the United States.
When will Protestant and Evangelical ecumenists realize that Rome really does not want them as friends, but only as tools and fools?
May our Lord protect the United States from the Roman Catholic Church.
posted by Robt. B. at 5:23 AM
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