Poprocki shoveling dirt on Catholicism's grave

Bishop Thomas Poprocki, head of the Springfield, Illinois Catholic Diocese needs a new job title. Henceforth it should be Chief of Catholic Membership Removal. His call to deny the sacraments to Illinois legislative leaders Mike Madigan and John Cullerton for supporting abortion rights, expands his decade long denial to US Senator Dick Durbin for his pro abortion stance. That move may be applauded by the dwindling hard line faithful, but it's only likely to accelerate declines in Catholic church membership which leads all religions in a two decade decline.

Since 1999, Americans identifying with a church has declined from 70% to 50%. Folks identifying with no religion has more than doubled from 8% to 19%. Catholicism leads the shakeout with church membership declining from 76% to 63% among those professing to be Catholics. The generational decline is alarming: My Traditionalist generation (born before '46) still at 74% church membership while the current Millennials (1980-2000) just 57%.

If Poprocki had his way, one third of all Catholics who support Madigan, Cullerton and Durbin would hear Poprocki bellow "No communion for you".

Is any other religion in the world as self destructive as Catholicism? Don't let women be priests? Check. Don't let priests marry and enjoy sex? Check. Don't let the faithful follow their conscience? Check. With leaders like Poprocki, the Catholic Church does not need the Devil to sow its destruction