Catholic criminal coverups are no longer working.
Baltimore archdiocese’s "final plan" will cut parishes from 61 to 23.
The first US Catholic diocese since 1789 is disappearing.
Baltimore archdiocese’s "final plan" will cut parishes from 61 to 23.
The first US Catholic diocese since 1789 is disappearing.
Quote:The Archdiocese of Baltimore has released its final plan for reconfiguring operations of the Catholic church in the Baltimore area, a blueprint for change that will slash by about two-thirds the number of parishes in the city and several nearby suburbs.
The leadership team of “Seek the City to Come,” the multiyear realignment campaign, shared the earlier proposal with the Baltimore faithful during Masses in mid-April. At that stage, the draft suggested reducing the number of parishes from 61 to 21 and the number of worship sites from 59 to 26.
Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski, co-leader of the campaign, had told parishioners that radical change was necessary because attendance at city churches has cratered, and because of the widespread disrepair of aging buildings. The archdiocese lacks the resources, he says, to offer robust services under the geographically focused parish system that prevailed in the city for centuries.
The goal, he has said, is to grow through reduction and direct more energy to what remains.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/05/22/...baltimore/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
