Posted on 02/15/2024 7:22:36 AM PST by massmike
Boston's Catholic parishes are seeing a significant decline in membership, an alarming trend in one of the most Catholic cities in America.
For centuries, Catholic churches have been the beating heart of Boston. Places to find quiet and form community. Now, according to a new poll from the PEW Research Center, only 30% of Boston adults identify as Catholic. That's down 20% since 2000 across the United States, according to the Catholic News Agency.
"[In Boston}, maybe 40%, due to various things, particularly the sex abuse scandal, COVID hit, anger at statements from the Vatican," said professor Francis Xavier Clooney, a Jesuit priest in Boston and a professor of divinity and comparative theology at Harvard.
Those statements could ostracize those who called the Catholic church home. According to the CDC, nearly 20% of women experience fertility issues. And in Boston, more than 8% of adults identify as LGBTQ+.
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Boston is changing from Irish Catholic to “diverse”, just like all major cities.
20 years ago Copley Plaza and the Pru would be wonderfully decorated for Christmas. Now, you can barely tell it’s Christmas season, almost no decorations.
What is the significance of talking about women with fertility issues? How does that subject relate to people identifying as Catholic?
I can’t speak for Boston, but in Philadelphia, a lot of folks were disappointed when The Church abandoned Catholicism.
Catholics are moving south.
The article seems to focus on people who wish the Church would become more accepting of modern ways.
Go woke (go left), lose members?
Texas needs to send more Catholic illegals to Boston. LOL
Not many Irish coming across the border illegally
Indeed, the Catholic church has maintained its reverence for tradition for a very long time. But recently, they have made so many changes that reverse long-standing beliefs that their appeals for members to stay in the church ring rather hollow.
Maybe not Irish coming across the border illegally, but Bush told us that the Hispanic illegals are good Catholics with good conservative Catholic values or some such. By that logic, wouldn’t they fill up the dying Catholic churches in Boston?
“Go woke (go left), lose members?”
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Not proud of it, but this is me.
The marxist Pope has discouraged me to the point of being a C & E Catholic.
My faith in Christ as my savior has never been stronger but I cannot follow the church with what this apostate Pope is doing!
Never thought I’d see the day w the likes of this so-called Pope!
They are in small towns in Indiana. In my hometown they have been doing Midnight Mass in Spanish for at least 15 years. Used to be predominantly German Catholic. It’s now overwhelmingly Hispanic Catholic.
I’d consider that good news.
I think it’s time we laity all agree that the Vatican councils were an utter disaster. Everyone American Catholic is leaving or dying out. My parish has two English masses and two Spanish masses. Were we still using TLM, we would worship together. Instead we have a divided congregation and people. Now we can bless trannies and gays, except at least the Spanish congregation don’t play that
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