https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church_%28Antarctica%29
(For those who may not know, the NSF is an independent agency created by Congress in 1950)
So it's not a matter of there not being an available priest nor is it necessarily a matter of there not being an adequate number of Catholics, the real deal is that the US Government made the declaration because the US Government determined that one is no longer necessary.
Ah, but is there a Muslim Imam on the way?
A continent without a Catholic church.
Obama’s dream for North America, for starters.
This is not good!
My brother-in-law, a priest in the Gary, IN, diocese, during the dreadful cold (and plentiful snow) of last winter, told us one daily Mass he conducted was attended by only one person.
I asked him if she did not come would Mass have still gone on? And he said, “Of course!”
Mass is not just held for the people who come; it is held for the parish, town, state, and country, etc., as well, which brings to mind what Padre Pio stated:
“It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.”
McMurdo Station is populated almost entirely by scientists. Perhaps years of Liberals running the universities and biased NSF selection practices have managed to weed out any practicing Catholics from the pool?
**The numbers of Mass attendees at the Chapel of the Snows at McMurdo Station have so dwindled that the presence of a Catholic priest is no longer needed.**
My opinion.
A priest is always needed.
Proof that barky will go to the ends of the earth to destroy Christianity.