{"id":1188,"date":"2018-08-07T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/eng\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2018-07-27T01:38:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T01:38:20","slug":"luthers-homeland-is-more-catholic-than-protestant-the-crisis-of-the-reformed-denominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/2018\/08\/07\/luthers-homeland-is-more-catholic-than-protestant-the-crisis-of-the-reformed-denominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Luther\u2019s homeland is more Catholic than Protestant. The crisis of the Reformed denominations."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Martin Luther<\/strong>\u2019s homeland is today more Catholic than Lutheran. Catholics outnumbering Protestants, in Germany<\/strong>, happened in 2009. According to a recent survey, the crisis of the Protestants is increasing whilst the number of Catholics has been stable since 1950.<\/p>\n

The crisis of Protestantism<\/strong>, therefore, hits Germany as well. A short time ago, we were observing<\/a><\/em> the same phenomenon in the USA<\/strong>: collapse of the Reformed Christians and stability of the number of Catholics. 20,7 million<\/strong> German Protestants left Lutheranism in 1950, whilst the Catholic Church counted<\/a><\/em> 23,2 million<\/strong> faithful in 1950 and today likewise 23,3 millions. The absolute number is kept.<\/p>\n

Neither does the Catholic denomination enjoy good health, though: in a year, as reported by the Episcopal Conference of Germany, 270.000 faithful<\/strong> abandoned the Church, and only 9.332 entered<\/strong> or came back into it. The German Bishops have already closed 515 churches<\/strong> in the last ten years. One of the main reasons for this defection, unique in the whole world, is the compulsory religious tax<\/strong> (8-9% of the income tax) that believers are to pay to the Church. Many of those who \u201cunenroll\u201d remain, however, believers and Christians; simply, they do not want to pay an additional tax.<\/p>\n

Even though some attribute the decline of Lutheranism in the first place to the demographic pyramid<\/strong>, certainly we may say the Protestants\u2019 plan to conform<\/strong> with the secular to look more attractive has failed. Married priests, female bishops, the approval of divorce, contraception, and the gay agenda. It was useless: always more Lutherans have kept far the churches, maybe also because of this.<\/p>\n

The interview released<\/a><\/em> by Roger Scruton<\/strong>, eminent Anglican philosopher, Professor at the Oxford University, is very interesting: \u00abCatholic institutions\u00bb<\/em> \u2013 explained the most important exponent of contemporary conservatorism: \u00abare the only institutions that would openly offer cover and support to somebody as conservative as me, and without agreeing with me or anything like that\u00bb<\/em>. He did not follow the example of Newman<\/strong>, the passage to Catholicism, for two reasons: \u00abOne is that it requires a bigger leap of faith than I\u2019ve been able to achieve. And the other is that, because I\u2019m divorced, I couldn\u2019t possibly get married a second time in the Catholic Church\u00bb<\/em>. However, he concluded, \u00abI\u2019ve always been drawn to the Catholic Church<\/strong> because of its respect for tradition, for the apostolic continuity it represents and for its attempts to imbue ordinary life with sacraments\u00bb<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Such is then the appeal of the authoritativeness of the Apostolic continuity and the authority of Tradition, that is the fixed point in history that tells the truth on Christ and prevents us succumbing<\/strong> to the confusion and liquidity of modernity, as well as to all the other fleeting human interpretations. In Scruton\u2019s words, it is possible to notice the main cause<\/strong> \u2013 at least in our opinion \u2013 of the crisis of the Reformed denominations.<\/p>\n

The Editorial staff<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

German Catholics has been stable from 1950, while 20million German left Lutheranism. New polls show the Protestant world’s crisis, in USA and Germany. The Catholic Church stands up, loyal to the Tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[994,986,991,996,992,988,989,990,987,993,995],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-catholic-churches","tag-catholics","tag-church-in-germany","tag-crisis-protestantism","tag-crisis-protestants","tag-german-catholics","tag-german-protestants","tag-lutheranism","tag-protestants","tag-religious-poll","tag-roger-scruton"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLuther\u2019s homeland is more Catholic than Protestant. 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