What church?

[Ben Davis]

Hey, I got a question for the Catholics:

If your church is named after one saint or person or whatever or another, does that change the values of that church or the way the priest 'preaches' (if they do?)

Hi Summer, it's two-fold:

1. Different prelatures can have different focus or different missions. For example, the prelature of St John the Baptist's angle is public display of piety & evangelism whilst the Benedictine prelature's angle is private austerity & self-sacrifice. I won't pretend to understand all of them because it's pretty confusing and the differences between some prelatures seem very slight (if any). There are bishops in the Vatican whose jobs are to understand and maintain the prelatures, though.
2. By having pan-diocesian groups, it makes it possible to remain part of your catholic 'community' thus providing social continuity whilst allowing mobility. For example, my mother's local, baptismal & confirmational church where she grew up in Liverpool was a catholic church of St John the Baptist; when my family needed to relocate (first to London then to Hastings), they picked locations with St John the Baptist churches. This continuity would also exist, to a great extent, if they had moved to a different country.