Detroit Catholic parish to close, converted to mosque

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KathleenElsie said:
I admit ignorance as to what the Muslims feel about worshiping with images of other religions surrounding them. Maybe someone can explain it.

All I ever heard was that images were covered if they could not be removed, and since they had no respect for them those that could be destroyed were destroyed. I believe they do not allow images depicting Mohammad at all.
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They consider such images as idolatry. They will certainly remove all Catholic statues, pictures, and stained glass.
 
Richardols said:
They consider such images as idolatry. They will certainly remove all Catholic statues, pictures, and stained glass.
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St. Paul says that the evil we would avoid, that is what we do: and the good that we would do, that we avoid.
 
It’s not that big of a deal, in NYC there are a lot of Church closures. The inner cities aren’t catering to Italian and Irish immigrants anymore. The Irish and Italians have moved to the burbs they are catering to Indians, Middle Eastern, Asian, and Africans etc… And they happen to be Muslims, it’s not that big of a deal really. Churches are closed all the time when they’re not needed anymore.
 
Saint_Michael said:
It’s not that big of a deal, in NYC there are a lot of Church closures. The inner cities aren’t catering to Italian and Irish immigrants anymore. The Irish and Italians have moved to the burbs they are catering to Indians, Middle Eastern, Asian, and Africans etc… And they happen to be Muslims, it’s not that big of a deal really. Churches are closed all the time when they’re not needed anymore.
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It most certainly is a big deal! There are lost souls out there who need to be reached, and not only are Catholics not reaching them, but they don’t even bother to teach their own and keep them in the true fold.
 
Christians need to have tons of babies, and teach them the faith. That will solve the problem for good.
 
This is something you actually would expect to happen in Detroit, which just happens to have probably the largest concentration of Muslims in America. Being surprised at this is like being surprised at a new synagogue in Fort Lauderdale.
 
No one is surprised that Muslims are moving in - just that Catholic bishops are making sweet real estate deals with them by selling off Catholic properties paid for by the pennies and labor of their former constituents. Distasteful and disgraceful, but no surpise these days.
 
Sad but the demography is very realistic. And like catholics like me, don´t evangelize, make proselitism and not giving enough money to the church, and the church in US receives a lot more money that here for example in Spain, it´s horrible, well, the results are there.
 
Has anyone mentioned the legacy white flight?
I don’t know if the Catholic population of Southeast Michigan is growing or shrinking, but you certainly can’t tell that simply from what happens in the city of Detroit. My mother’s family was from Hamtramck (though they went to St. Florian); but years later none of the relatives are anywhere near Detroit. It’s true that some aren’t Catholic anymore either, but some are. My point is that the issue is more complicated than it’s being made out to be. I doubt the people where these immigrants are coming from are paniced that the Muslim population in their city is dropping. 🙂

We do need to proclaim the gospel with as much energy as possible, and we have to accept that there will be times when many followers are lost, but it may be a bit premature to forecast doom. Forty years ago they said “God is Dead” - look what happened.
 
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