Posted on 07/28/2015 4:49:29 AM PDT by marshmallow
Supply and demand.
Importing too many Muslims. Not enough Catholics reproducing.
And what is to be done with the Churches that are taken out of service, so to speak?
The Churches need to stay open Cardinal. They are being used. If it’s money, why can’t the socialist in Rome throw a few bucks to keep the doors open?
Or is he too busy going around criticizing capitalism?
Catholics are reproducing, just not in the old cities of the northeast and the Midwest. Parishes are growing in the south and southwest, where businesses are growing. Massive infrastructure in churches and schools in inner cities cannot be sustained. New parishes and buildings are needed elsewhere. It is a challenge and a sadness for the ever-dwindling number of people whose families have generations-long relationships with closing NE city parishes.
I know it’s cost-prohibitive, but it’s too bad some of these grand old churches can’t be disassembled, moved, and rebuilt where the congregations are.
The same consolidation/closing happened in Cleveland a few years back.
“Importing too many Muslims. Not enough Catholics reproducing”
I guess that’s it in a nutshell.
Catholics themselves to blame. If the statistics are right, a good number of Catholics vote Dem, and presumably helped elect 0bama.
And due to contraception and abortion, far less offspring are available to carry on the Faith. Both against Church teaching.
More evidence America has turned it’s back on God.
THAT is what needs fixing if we expect any return to the true America.
NEED to get the GOOD NEWS of the GOSPEL of JESUS proclaimed to ALL!
Get the GOSPEL of Jesus proclaimed is the answer.
They could have kept these churches open. I know people in some of these parishes and they had raised the money for repairs and running expenses and wanted to evangelize in their areas (either blacks or the unchurched young whites or Hispanics moving in). The archdiocese just didn’t want to, because Dolan wants to sell the property and he wants the number of parishes on NYC reduced to ONE THIRD of what they were when he took over.
Dolan and his boss are both creepily smiling, evil statists who don’t give a darn about the Faith or about the flock. Unless they happen to be LGTBQWXYZ.
Ya....the Gospel of Jesus is read at every Mass!
Yes........but beyond the mass, in our daily lives.
I call this failure to evangelize.
Actually, that is beginning to happen in some places.
Check out newoldchurch.org to see a good example.
If it’s anything like what they’re doing here they are closing long-standing parishes in Harlem and The Bronx, and putting the arm on those parishoners to fund new churches and schools in swanky upscale communities on Long Island and in Westchester.
Follow the money.
How long before these churches become mosques?
How many protestants and evangelicals voted for Obama? Why are Catholics always mentioned, but the whole truth never told?
8 out of 10 white Protestants voted for Romney...95% of black Protestants voted for Obama...
6 out of 10 White Catholics voted for Romney...75% of Mexican Catholics voted for Obama...
Another source: Pew: The Evangelical Hispanic vote went 50-39 in favor of Obama in 2012. Hispanic Protestants in general went 55-33 for Obama in 2012.
This post is about Catholic Churches. Only Catholics go the Catholic Churches.
What any other denomination does is not relevant to the issue presented here. Do Protestants or Baptists attend Catholic Church? Do they listen to the Pope, Cardinals, or Bishops?
There is nothing else to discuss here.
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