Friday, August 18
India
Will there be a Catholic Church in India 20 years from now?
One priest isn't sure. I have to admit I was surprised.
He's right, though, in the importance of the birth rate. The fate of most merged or priest-less parishes, at least in rural areas, was sealed twenty or thirty years before, when those parishes simply didn't have the children to continue.
One priest isn't sure. I have to admit I was surprised.
He's right, though, in the importance of the birth rate. The fate of most merged or priest-less parishes, at least in rural areas, was sealed twenty or thirty years before, when those parishes simply didn't have the children to continue.
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