Posted on 03/27/2017 6:35:06 PM PDT by marshmallow
Instead of closing parishes because of a shortage of priests, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich has proposed to appoint lay people to administer parishes.
Cardinal Marx said that lay-run parishes would provide the German archdiocese with a way of remaining visible locally despite the clergy shortage. The local Church is most significant, he said. We would waste a great many opportunities if we were to withdraw from our territorial roots.
Cardinal Marxwho is president of the German bishops conference, and a member of the Council of Cardinals advising Pope Francissaid that the Church should explore new ways to involve lay people in pastoral ministry.
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Like his hero Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Marx's seminaries are empty.
Wreckers.
No Masses, no confessions, no Communion? Is that Marx’s idea of a Catholic Church?
I guess they could meet and play Bingo.
The local bishop here (or his predecessor, I should say, since there has been a recent replacement) made heavy use of permanent deacons to leverage the priests, but there was always a priest (or, usually) several, to do what only priests can do.
Pope Francis, as quoted by La Civiltà Cattolica in his address to the Jesuits gathered to elect their new superior general. October 24, 2016.
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