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German Cardinal Marx Suggests Lay-Run Parishes
Catholic Culture ^ | 3/27/17

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 Marx—who is president of the German bishops’ conference, and a member of the Council of Cardinals advising Pope Francis—said that the Church should explore new ways to involve lay people in pastoral ministry.

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Spring time in Germany..........

Like his hero Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Marx's seminaries are empty.

Wreckers.

1 posted on 03/27/2017 6:35:06 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
Like his hero Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Marx's seminaries are empty. The Archdiocese of Munich, which boasts a Catholic population of over 1.7 million, has attracted only one candidate for the priesthood this year. Case closed.
2 posted on 03/27/2017 6:39:25 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: marshmallow

No Masses, no confessions, no Communion? Is that Marx’s idea of a Catholic Church?

I guess they could meet and play Bingo.


3 posted on 03/27/2017 6:39:37 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: marshmallow

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.


4 posted on 03/27/2017 6:49:52 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: marshmallow; heterosupremacist
“Discernment, the capacity to discern, is the key element. And I am referring precisely to the lack of discernment in the formation of priests. We are in fact at risk of getting used to ‘black and white’ and to that which is legal. We are fairly closed off, by and large, to discernment. One thing is clear: today in a certain number of seminaries a rigidity has again established itself that is not closely compatible with a discernment of situations. And it is a dangerous thing, because it can lead to a conception of morality that has a casuistic sense. [. . .]

Pope Francis, as quoted by “La Civiltà Cattolica” in his address to the Jesuits gathered to elect their new superior general. October 24, 2016.

5 posted on 03/27/2017 7:27:04 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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