“Actually they kicked all the parisioners out of “The Church”. This area has beautiful old Catholic cathedrals and churches...empty, nearly empty and “repurposed” When?
Starting in the 60s, when the Soviets began the American “cultural revolution” and subsequently won.”
No doubt Leftism infected the members of the Church, but parishes shut down in America for two reasons:
1) Inner city parishes shut down because the parishioners moved to the suburbs in the 1950s onward. No people = no parish.
2) Contraception. If Catholics had not adopted contraception, there would be tens of millions more than there are now and all the parishes would be filled to overflowing.
“Do you not remember “God is dead”?”
I remember it, but that was written in 1882 - 80 years before the 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead
They don't have cities here.
I remember it, but that was written in 1882 - 80 years before the 1960s.
Well, I'm obviously not as old as you. But the 60s is when communism went mainstream in the US.