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Church Struggles With Change by Grossman and DeBarros
Posted by Ed and Lois
From Religion Section (USA Today)
The Catholic Church is changing in America at its most visible point: the parish church where believers pray, sing and clasp hands across pews to share the peace of God.
Today there are fewer parishes and fewer priests than in 1990 and fewer of the nation’s 65 million Catholics in those pews. And there’s no sign of return.
American Catholics have become consumers, church-shopping like their Protestant neighbors and choosing their parish by the school or the theological perspective or the music that matches them,” says Brian Reynolds, chancellor for the Archdiocese of Louisville. “We have people coming from 30 or 40 or 50 ZIP codes to the church they prefer.”
No one knows the ZIP codes of the no-shows
Nationally, attendance slid from 44% in 1987 to 37% in 1999. D’Antonio predicts it will be 33% in 2005.
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