Well, we have some good news. A new report shows that more Catholics are joining,

sorry, more Americans are joining the Catholic Church than leaving the Catholic Church.

And in the thumbnail, you can see that we've hit a crossover point with more people joining than leaving. And that's good news because in the last

several decades, we've actually been seeing a little bit of a coming close, but generally a decline.

Even some reports saying eight out of ten or nine out of ten Americans who are Catholic over their life will leave

the Catholic Church. And that's called demographic decline. It's one of the things I'm talking a lot

about in my book, Christian Patriot, and that is we need to pay attention to demographics. Demographics are destiny. You look at Europe,

you look at the United States, you look at the Western world, you look at birth rates,

you look at conversion rates. All of these things are very important. Now, I just want to say

from the get go, you can't quantify the Holy Spirit, the third person, the Trinity. You can't quantify grace. You know, we don't have a TSA baton that we can hold over people. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-d-d. This person has got sanctifying grace. They're at 78 percent. They're doing great. And then, you know, over someone

out, deed, de, de, d, and like this person has no sanctifying grace. John chapter 3, verse 8, says,

The spirit breatheth where he will, and thou hearest his voice, but thou knowest not whence he cometh, and whither he goeth,

so is everyone that is born of the spirit.

So it's not something that we can see, and demographics don't reveal that.

As a church, as the Catholic Church, we shouldn't be just looking at demographics.

So when we do this show today and we look at demographics,

I don't want you to think that this is basically like Q3 reporting on profit loss for the Catholic Church.

But it is a snapshot.

You know, we can't see the Holy Spirit.

We can't see where he's moving. But we can see the't see the Holy Spirit. We can't see where he's moving, but we can see

the effects of the Holy Spirit, just like the wind blowing. You can't really see the wind,

but you can see the trees swaying with the wind. You can see the effects of the wind.

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