1 posted on
11/01/2014 2:35:28 PM PDT by
NYer
To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...
This is indeed a painful situation for
practicing catholics. Regardless of your personal feelings towards Cardinal Dolan, one must acknowledge that the demographics of New York City have undergone a tremendous shift since many of these churches were built by European immigrants. It is especially anxious for me to await the fate of St. Michael's Church on W. 34th Street where my great, great grandparents baptized their 5 children. The current pastor is one you all recognize - Fr. George Rutler.
Ping!
2 posted on
11/01/2014 2:35:51 PM PDT by
NYer
("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
To: NYer
3 posted on
11/01/2014 2:36:25 PM PDT by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: NYer
Spend less time doing “interfaith” services and more time spreading the faith.
Wierd how conservative areas are not closing Churches but are building them.
4 posted on
11/01/2014 2:37:44 PM PDT by
icwhatudo
(Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
To: NYer
The consolidation makes sense. The sad thing is that they don’t build churches like they used to.
8 posted on
11/01/2014 2:47:45 PM PDT by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: NYer
Not good news.
The American Church is dying.
11 posted on
11/01/2014 2:49:30 PM PDT by
miserare
(2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
To: NYer
"Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?"
Yes, but not in Manhattan.
19 posted on
11/01/2014 3:32:44 PM PDT by
Oratam
To: NYer
26 posted on
11/01/2014 5:04:52 PM PDT by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. We have no 'news media', only a Soviet Pravda.)
To: NYer
High taxes + contraception.
Dropping population, and closing parishes.
27 posted on
11/01/2014 5:38:04 PM PDT by
rwilson99
(Please tell me how the words "shall not perish and have everlasting life" would NOT apply to Mary.)
To: NYer
"Pope Benedict reminded us that 'the vine must be pruned if it is to grow and produce fruit.'"------------------------------------------------------------
Perhaps some of these cardinals should be pruned from the vine as well.
29 posted on
11/01/2014 5:40:58 PM PDT by
Heart-Rest
("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
To: NYer
If the original guests don’t want to come to the wedding, aren’t we supposed to go out into the streets and invite whoever, like in the parable?
Shouldn’t at least some of these parishes have thought about evangelization before they shrunk too much?
Shouldn’t we all be doing that?
31 posted on
11/01/2014 9:15:50 PM PDT by
married21
( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: NYer
"........but I still get to go to the Al Smith dinner every year with all my Democrat pals, so I'm not losing hope."
- Cardinal Dolan
To: NYer
Any town that has turned into liberal USA, like NY City, Buffalo, Pitt, Boston, are closing down Catholic Churches left and right. Liberals by and large don’t go to church. The Catholic Church is growing in the South and Catholic Churches are being built not torn down or sold to Muslims and Buddists, as is the case in the Northeast.
39 posted on
11/02/2014 7:02:33 AM PST by
NKP_Vet
("PRO FIDE, PRO UTILITATE HOMINUM")
To: NYer
a sign of the times, the white Europeans moved out of the cities and into the suburbs while the new Hispanic immigrants do not regularly attend mass...Yes, some churches do have a large Spanish mass but that’s usually because there may be only one Spanish mass in that church...from my observations here in the urban areas of new jersey, which is full of Hispanics, I see that a small percentage of them regularly attend mass. And many of them are joining fundamentalist, Mormon and
46 posted on
11/02/2014 6:01:21 PM PST by
Coleus
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