NY Diocese Goes Out to Count Christ’s Flock and Bring Back the Lost Sheep

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This in the aftermath of all the church closings and mergers in the archdiocese of New York?
 
ProVobis said:
This in the aftermath of all the church closings and mergers in the archdiocese of New York?
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That is Cardinal Dolan’s work to close churches, this bishop is doing the opposite it looks like. :extrahappy:
 
Divine3 said:
That is Cardinal Dolan’s work to close churches, this bishop is doing the opposite it looks like. :extrahappy:
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I’m not the biggest fan of Cardinal Dolan in New York, but really, I don’t know what else he’s supposed to do. New York City has a Catholic church about every five blocks, and most of them are nearly empty on Sundays. There are exceptions, of course (it’s my impression that most of the exceptions are churches that serve immigrants), but a walk around town on Sunday will show you what I’m talking about.

It costs a ton of money to keep a church open and staffed. Consolidating adjacent parishes might be the only way to go. I’m no expert on the finances and management of a diocese, of course, so take what I say for what it’s worth.
 
Inisfallen said:
I’m not the biggest fan of Cardinal Dolan in New York, but really, I don’t know what else he’s supposed to do. New York City has a Catholic church about every five blocks, and most of them are nearly empty on Sundays. There are exceptions, of course (it’s my impression that most of the exceptions are churches that serve immigrants), but a walk around town on Sunday will show you what I’m talking about.

It costs a ton of money to keep a church open and staffed. Consolidating adjacent parishes might be the only way to go. I’m no expert on the finances and management of a diocese, of course, so take what I say for what it’s worth.
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🤷 Yes what you say is worth in all its depth but it is so tragic to see our country having to have Catholic churches close all over the place-- It shows the times we are in. I know as you know for a fact that people sacrficed greatly through the years to build these bieautiful churches if you read from the From the treatise On the Prescription of Heretics by Tertullian, For the feast day of today St. Phillip and St James which of course is left out because of Sunday you might find it amazing to see how Christians looked at their churches.

Ch 20,1-9;21,3;22,8-10

"The preaching of the ApostlesThey set up churches in every city. Other churches received from them a living transplant of faith and the seed of doctrine, and through this daily process of transplanting they became churches. They therefore qualify as apostolic churches by being the offspring of churches that are apostolic.

Every family has to be traced back to its origins. That is why we can say that all these great churches constitute that one original Church of the apostles; for it is from them that they all come. They are all primitive, all apostolic, because they are all one. They bear witness to this unity by the peace in which they all live, the brotherhood which is their name, the fellowship to which they are pledged. The principle on which these associations are based is common tradition by which they share the same sacramental bond.

The only way in which we can prove what the apostles taught – that is to say, what Christ revealed to them – is through those same churches. They were founded by the apostles themselves, who first preached to them by what is called the living voice and later by means of letters." God help us all (that’s form me)
 
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