'Vibrant' Downsizing
Question - What does the Cleveland, Ohio Roman Catholic Diocese call its plan to shut down anywhere from 23 to 48 of its 231 churches?
Answer – It’s part of their Vibrant Parish Life program!
Big-city Roman dioceses, like Cleveland, have seen this coming for years as Catholics have moved out to the suburbs, thus sticking the diocese with many inner-city churches that are empty and not bringing in the money!
The Vibrant Parish Life program is nothing but a Catholic propaganda effort to make a good “spin” out of a bad situation. Their latest buzzword is clustering – where the remaining Catholic churches will share priests and resources all under the banner of such phrases as:
“A vibrant parish reaches out to the world around it…A vibrant parish is a caring and welcoming community of faith…Parishes will need to have coordinated outreach ministries…”
You get the idea.
The biggest joke in the whole Vibrant Parish Life program is the now unmentioned and abandoned Church in the City program announced in 1994. This was supposed to “twin” a suburban parish with an inner-city parish so that, in the spirit of “diversity” and “multiculturalism,” each could experience the “gifts” of the other! But the clergy discovered that suburban Catholics wanted nothing to do with the “gifts” of the inner city!!
Church in the City went over like a lead balloon.
Is it Vibrant Parish Life? Hardly. It’s more like corporate downsizing with a forced smile. Please pray that God continue to expose the phony nature of the Catholic Church, and that many Catholics be graciously granted repentance from Rome and faith ALONE in Christ for the forgiveness of sins and eternal life.
Answer – It’s part of their Vibrant Parish Life program!
Big-city Roman dioceses, like Cleveland, have seen this coming for years as Catholics have moved out to the suburbs, thus sticking the diocese with many inner-city churches that are empty and not bringing in the money!
The Vibrant Parish Life program is nothing but a Catholic propaganda effort to make a good “spin” out of a bad situation. Their latest buzzword is clustering – where the remaining Catholic churches will share priests and resources all under the banner of such phrases as:
“A vibrant parish reaches out to the world around it…A vibrant parish is a caring and welcoming community of faith…Parishes will need to have coordinated outreach ministries…”
You get the idea.
The biggest joke in the whole Vibrant Parish Life program is the now unmentioned and abandoned Church in the City program announced in 1994. This was supposed to “twin” a suburban parish with an inner-city parish so that, in the spirit of “diversity” and “multiculturalism,” each could experience the “gifts” of the other! But the clergy discovered that suburban Catholics wanted nothing to do with the “gifts” of the inner city!!
Church in the City went over like a lead balloon.
Is it Vibrant Parish Life? Hardly. It’s more like corporate downsizing with a forced smile. Please pray that God continue to expose the phony nature of the Catholic Church, and that many Catholics be graciously granted repentance from Rome and faith ALONE in Christ for the forgiveness of sins and eternal life.
posted by Robt. B. at 4:24 PM
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