My local Catholic Church doesn’t practice very much outreach to the community. If you are single and not Young-young, there aren’t a lot of obvious ways to feel like a part of the parish.
“My local Catholic Church doesn’t practice very much outreach to the community.”
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Parishes used to be tight communities, like a big family. I think in many cases they’ve lost some closeness and a feeling of belonging.
And many have followed the former mainline Protestant denominations’ tendency to tend toward becoming little more than liberal PACs.
If young people are looking for some place to indulge their social justice/liberal leanings there are a lot of outlets with which churches have to compete.