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Size and growth rate offer only a very superficial 'positive impression' of a group. Stability and longevity also offer a superficial 'positive impression'. Truth matters but to benefit from it one must know what it is and that's where things get difficult. It takes time and effort to discern...
There was a 1984 or 1985 predicted end too, something to do with the alignment of planets on one side of the sun.
It's odd really, many of the folk who get worked up about John Hagee's "blood moons" also talk disparagingly of Jehovah's witnesses failed end dates, 1878, 1914, 1975 but apparently...
The truth is that a December date comes from the East rather than from Rome; but don't let the facts get in the way of a good bit of prejudicial propaganda :P
Who can speak for the USA's future? Not me. But I remember that 2000 was predicted to be the end, and then 2012, now we have a 2015 claim and one cannot help but wonder when the folk making predictions will notice the total failure of past predictions. The end will come but it will come in God's...
Maybe a change of culture; such frequent mass shootings by a single perpetrator are very rare elsewhere in the western World. Canada has far fewer, Australia too has far fewer, New Zealand, England, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Spain, France, Germany ... all have far fewer such incidents.
I've never said any such thing. The Church doesn't teach any such thing.
Toward unity
820 "Christ bestowed unity on his Church from the beginning. This unity, we believe, subsists in the Catholic Church as something she can never lose, and we hope that it will continue to increase until the end...
Just read the speech and then you can decide for yourself. By the way, I used "prophetic" in the sense of speaking uncomfortable truth to power rather than as an utterance of one who holds a prophetic office.
The sin involved in schism is ...
Wounds to unity
817 In fact, “in this one and only Church of God from its very beginnings there arose certain rifts, which the Apostle strongly censures as damnable. But in subsequent centuries much more serious dissensions appeared and large communities...