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Priest Warns, US Church Is “About to Collapse”

Fr Matt Fish, parish priest at Holy Family Catholic Church in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, wrote on twitter about the “collapse” of the Catholic Church in America / the West. His Twitter thread reads: …More
Fr Matt Fish, parish priest at Holy Family Catholic Church in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, wrote on twitter about the “collapse” of the Catholic Church in America / the West.
His Twitter thread reads:
“Said it before, and I’ll say it again: working for the Catholic Church in America in 2019 feels something like working for Blockbuster Movies in 2005. We’re still arguing about how we should display the DVDs, and meanwhile our current model and customer base is about to collapse.
Simply put: every diocese is full of parishes that have much smaller, now mostly older, congregations, in aging buildings with less money, and in a few short years we will hit the bell curve with both people and money. And we’re barely talking about it.
Our schools are closing, and those that remain are becoming “private” schools for those who can afford them, as we struggle to understand what “Catholic Identity” means for a student body, most of whom do not attend Sunday Mass.
“The average knowledge of the …More
RandyTripp68
Excellent! God's Truth is absolute and unchanging. The Priest is to perform the "Divine Sacrifice" facing God not to preside over a community meal. "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
"Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."