[NYer]

The trend is similar in the UK where the Archdiocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh will cut the number of parishes from 100 to 30. Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Utrecht in the Netherlands announced that about a thousand parishes would close by 2025. The Archdiocese of Vienna is also downsizing. In the next ten years it will combine 660 parishes into just 150.

Catholic ping!

[utahagen]

Here in the USA, the USConferenceofCatholcBishops prattles endlessly about “the poor”, and it objects to even modest modifications to any benefits to single women who have baby after baby and get increased benefit per child. Meanwhile, the Catholic Church is opposed to premarital sex — which means faithful Catholics will marry young — as well as birth control, sterilization, and abortion. So, how does the USCCB support Catholic Families? By urging/demanding that Catholic parishes support Catholic grade schools and that the schools give breaks as the families get larger? Nope. Not a word about these Not a bloody word.