Dan Minette wrote: > > As for South America, my uncle talked a lot about the relatively low > attendance at his parish. I'm guessing slightly more than 1% went to > church. "Muy Catolico, pero no fanatico." > That's true here in Rio de Janeiro. About 70% of the population claims to be Catholic, but of these maybe 5% go the the Church even eventually. The huge majority only goes to Church to attend weddings and 7th-day mass.
And, of course, even those that go to Church regularly don't give a damn about any RCC regulation that would limit their pleasures: they don't eat meat on the Easter Friday, but they may chose that day to do an abortion. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
