Went to mass in this diocese in ct for Christmas mass
No kids. At the five pm vigil mass at Christmas no kids
They had to open a second area for a whole different mass, the attendance differential from Christmas to Sunday was so profound
The group we were with was so inconvenienced at having to go to mass for Christmas that the kids said they felt like anne frank
It was so hot in there, the crowd was so dense, and not one of the many New York CEOs could manage to open a window or send his son to crack the door, the place was so foreign
I had to ask for a ride a couple of days prior to get to mass the lady of the house was at yoga. I got dropped at mass in one Porsche and picked up by the same person in a different Porsche
That’s the neighborhood this is in
There are working class neighborhoods there as well and Bridgeport is ther nearby anyway
People all over the country think they can tell the church what to do how to be what rules to have
These bishops are not out to destroy most grew up in democrat many in union households who hate wealth they’ve had bad experience with it but that’s crony capitalism. And the church here inserts itself into it.
Even the pope stated recently that government should give to the poor in an opinion piece
The church is NOT drawing people to the church. This family’s Catholicism goes back to st Patrick and in the last generation is losing multitudes through its misinterpretation
If they knew the real presence they’d be in there like their ancestors who helped build this country.
But now the big money men and their wives are not interested in the church nor their community. They just make money and play
The rest are waiting for leadership and a reverence for the church
But the USCCB has taken on social engineering. It is an abuse of power and misuse of Power
Per Charles Murray, blue collar whites, especially outside the south, are less religiously engaged than their upper middle class co-religionists. The Proles are not looking for any direction from the RCC either.
Catholics? America was built by Protestants, Catholics were less than one half of one percent, and concentrated in a single area, they didn't start growing until immigration started in the 1840s/1850s.