Both my grandfathers were coal miners, one quit to drive a cab and another quit to clean buildings. How badly they wanted out when they were young gave me a strong message.
Depends. In my parish, it's immigration killing the Church: the Catholics move out, the immigrants aren't Christian & don't go to church or use the Catholic schools. They are drawn by the taxpayer funded public schools.
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It’s the Church’s inability to protect children from pedophiles that drove me out.
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If you left the Church for another religious denomination, a public school, a media or entertainment company, a political party, the military, or a sports team, I have bad news for you about sex abusers.
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Also, they’re having fewer babies. (Except the immigrants, who are re-opening some of them.)
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Fewer babies is a pervasive problem.
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Not to get to personal, but where do you live? There are so many parishes that being held up by immigrants. The issue is that they are generally lower income and support the church less. http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/immigrant-status/immigrants/religious-tradition/catholic/ …
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Queens (we don't even live in the parish ourselves anymore). I'm not talking about the general trend - eg, parishes in Brooklyn depend on immigrants from all over. But local population shifts can kill parishes. Will be moreso as immigration trends shift.
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Public schools are one of the best parts of America. Going to a public school is not a negative.
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This is nine kinds of nonsense. "The immigrants made me do it" is a popular and versatile excuse.
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If Catholics are “moving out,” it stands to reason they are off being Catholic somewhere else, and “immigration” is not “killing the Church.”
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Indeed it is not, overall. My point is just that it can be - as it is in my parish - death to particular local Catholic communities. This discussion is about localities, not the Church writ large.
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