I didn't realize you made this thread, lol My apologies for being an inappropriate ''guest.''
So, how is the Church getting on, with regards to where you reside? I mainly focus on the west, since I live in the west.
Not at all, you have every right to express your opinion. I value honesty
I live in the West also - the UK to be precise.
My point was simply that it's not the same story everywhere, even in the West. I mean, Malta doesn't look like it's losing its Catholicism and its in the Europe, while in Africa:
http://europe.newsweek.com/jesus-has-found-home-here-rise-catholicism-africa-399114
JESUS HAS FOUND A HOME HERE: THE RISE OF CATHOLICISM IN AFRICA
Pope Francis has just concluded his first papal visit to Africa. If he wanted a popularity boost, he went to the right place: the Catholic Church is flourishing in Africa.
Each of the countries that the pope visited— Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic (CAR)—has a substantial Catholic population. According to a 2011 report on global Christianity by the Pew Research Center, Kenya has 9 million Catholics, Uganda 14 million and the CAR 1.3 million—equivalent to 22 percent, 42 percent and 29 percent of the population, respectively. And these are not isolated phenomena, cherry-picked to ensure a smooth visit for Francis: the report estimates that around one-in-five of sub-Saharan Africans belonged to the Roman Catholic Church in 2010.
There has also been an explosive growth in the number of Catholics in Africa over the past 35 years. The world’s Catholic population has grown by 57 percent since 1980, according to a June report by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University...
The CARA report predicts that by 2040, almost one in four Africans will be Catholic, putting the continent’s total Catholic population at 460 million.
Pope Francis has just concluded his first papal visit to Africa. If he wanted a popularity boost, he went to the right place: the Catholic Church is flourishing in Africa.
Each of the countries that the pope visited— Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic (CAR)—has a substantial Catholic population. According to a 2011 report on global Christianity by the Pew Research Center, Kenya has 9 million Catholics, Uganda 14 million and the CAR 1.3 million—equivalent to 22 percent, 42 percent and 29 percent of the population, respectively. And these are not isolated phenomena, cherry-picked to ensure a smooth visit for Francis: the report estimates that around one-in-five of sub-Saharan Africans belonged to the Roman Catholic Church in 2010.
There has also been an explosive growth in the number of Catholics in Africa over the past 35 years. The world’s Catholic population has grown by 57 percent since 1980, according to a June report by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University...
The CARA report predicts that by 2040, almost one in four Africans will be Catholic, putting the continent’s total Catholic population at 460 million.
In other places, sure, it's been in steady decline, especially in Western Europe. Mixed bag.