Posted on 02/01/2014 11:40:35 PM PST by CorporateStepsister
"Playing off the idea of using social media to summon crowds for parties, Catholics have been attending some of the city's often sparsely attended churches."
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Here in NJ, many middle-class people are forced to use the public schools because of the huge property tax burdens. It isn’t the best education, but when supplemented by parental input it suffices. When property taxes near $10K annually, additional money for private school tuition simply isn’t there (and many decent-paying jobs have left the area permanently).
Without drastic, timely action NJ will have one Catholic school in each county; they are closing quickly.
Yes, I’d imagine the problems on LI are similar to NJ. Here, the closed schools are sometimes rented out to public school districts; the same children may even attend, but it is now a public school. Revenue for a parish in exchange for the souls of children...
True here, too. The diocese doesn’t help with the schools or tuition. It is a shame.
Find a pries that you can sit down with and talk. Get your questions answered.
God bless you in your search.
I saw this yesterday and sent it to my priest. We didn’t need it yesterday on the Dedication of our new Church, but I thought he would enjoy reading it.
Our new church holds roughly (my estimate) 300-400 more people and it was packed. Loft was full, narthex had extra seating and was full, people were standing along the walls for the Dedication Mass.
God bless our new Archbishop who mixed a generous amount of catechesis and evangelization into explaining the Dedication of a New Church. It was awesome.
If any og you get the opportunity to attend the Dedication of a New Church, do it, even if you have to travel.
I saw this yesterday and sent it to my priest. We didn’t need it yesterday on the Dedication of our new Church, but I thought he would enjoy reading it.
Our new church holds roughly (my estimate) 300-400 more people and it was packed. Loft was full, narthex had extra seating and was full, people were standing along the walls for the Dedication Mass.
God bless our new Archbishop who mixed a generous amount of catechesis and evangelization into explaining the Dedication of a New Church. It was awesome.
If any of you get the opportunity to attend the Dedication of a New Church, do it, even if you have to travel.
Do you get your information out of tiny illustrated newsprint publications?
Catholic church properties belong to the local Diocese, not to the "rich Vatican."
And the Vatican’s fungible assets are worth about a billion dollars, a mere drop in the bucket compared to, say, Harvard University’s $27 billion endowment.
Pencil that into your comic book, please.
Besides, to whom would one sell, say, Michelangelo’s Pieta? George Soros? So he could put it in his private collection? To whom could one sell the Sistine Chapel? The Saudis? So they could carve it to pieces and put the fragments on the world market? Or blow it up like the Bamiyan Buddhas? (Link)
Second, the great art functions not as a financial resource, but as a net drain on the Vatican's budget, as they can hardly afford even now to maintain and preserve them. You might have noticed that thirty years ago, the Sistine repair/restoration work was put in the hands of the Nippon Television Network Corporation (here's the story on the NTNC deal (Link) because the Vatican itself could not afford the sophisticated and painstaking technical process. Nippon TV undertook the restoration in exchange for exclusive photography and videotaping rights.
The story covered here on a Free Republic thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2694740/posts about how a huge library of rare manuscripts and books from ancient Eastern/Oriental Christianity is in imminent danger of falling into ruin because the Vatican can't afford to store them in the kind of temperature-and-humidity controlled, environmentally exacting conditions necessary for their preservation.
The whole thing is very briefly put in perspective here: Would Selling the Vatican End World Hunger?" (LINK)
It's kind of like saying the U.S. could end world hunger by selling the Lincoln Memorial, Mount Rushmore, the Capitol and the Smokey Mountains National Park to the Chinese. OK, other than the interesting prospect of having Mao Tse-Tung's visage added to Rushmore, do you think this would do any temporary (let alone lasting) good for the poor and hungry, or the cultural or natural heritage of the world?
it is isn’t it? Wonderful how so many people like to go to church, but don’t have the moxey. Now people are using social networking to meet and greet each other and now go to church, which is the perfect way to do things.
Your welcome, I like how people aren’t limiting themselves, they’re exploring other churches.
This is a great way to do it, I agree. Better than shady dating sites.
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