San Jose Diocese in historic demographic shift as Catholic landscape quakes

[Abyssinia]

The Diocese of San Jose is in the midst of a historic demographic shift, with parish populations exploding to the south and east while at the same time leveling or dwindling to the north and west.

In East San Jose and down through southern Santa Clara County, the tremendous influx of mostly young Hispanics, as well as Vietnamese and Filipinos, is straining parishes to the breaking point. The pastors in Morgan Hill and Gilroy are praying for a third parish to be built.

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[ConstantineTG]

Exploding populations in a diocese are the problems you’d want to have.

 

[Young_Thinker]

Exploding populations in a diocese are the problems you’d want to have.

Not if it is at another place’s expense. It sounds like this this large population comes more from immigration than from an increased natality rate or retention of churchgoers.

 

[Lujack]

Not if it is at another place’s expense. It sounds like this this large population comes more from immigration than from an increased natality rate or retention of churchgoers.

It could be neither, though-US parishes exploded from immigration from Ireland, Italy, and Poland without leading to the collapse of dioceses in those three countries.

 

[xixxvmcm85]

Not if it is at another place’s expense. It sounds like this this large population comes more from immigration than from an increased natality rate or retention of churchgoers.

Huh? The expenses for this diocese are paid for from outside the diocese?

 

[Young_Thinker]

It could be neither, though-US parishes exploded from immigration from Ireland, Italy, and Poland without leading to the collapse of dioceses in those three countries.

That is possible.

 

[Young_Thinker]

Huh? The expenses for this diocese are paid for from outside the diocese?

I am sorry if my statement was not clear. I meant another diocese or country losing some of their population to the Diocese of San Jose’, rather than the diocese experiencing true populational growth (increased birth-rate, more conversions, etc.). I was not placing an emphasis upon monetary gain or loss or suggesting that this diocese is actually receiving money from another see.