1 posted on
02/06/2006 8:07:22 AM PST by
sionnsar
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2 posted on
02/06/2006 8:07:59 AM PST by
sionnsar
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To: sionnsar
Parish priests generally, hopefully, have better and more important things to do with their time than sweep through their membership lists to remove inactive names.I disagree. I think it would be important to know who really is a member of your church. I think it would be important to know who has stopped coming to your church because they no longer reside in the area, and who is still in the area but no longer attends for one reason or another. It would very likely be worthwhile to talk to some of those people and find out why they stopped attending. Maybe you could find a way to get them to come back!
4 posted on
02/06/2006 8:24:41 AM PST by
RonF
To: sionnsar
Quite a few of these bishops would not even have their jobs were the numbers accurately calculated on the basis of ASA instead of being tied to the somewhat murky "overall" membership numbers. The number of delegates a parish is allowed to have at diocesan convention is tied to membership figures.
5 posted on
02/06/2006 9:02:28 AM PST by
Cookie123
To: sionnsar
$Howard made the "1100 stayed" assertion in the diocesan newsletter, which is read by a pastors and lay leaders who know full well the difference between membership and actual attendance. Surely $Howard would know this, which makes me wonder if he's really trying to dilude himself into thinking to situation isn't as bad as it really is.
6 posted on
02/06/2006 9:05:42 AM PST by
bobjam
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