Fr. Bill Peckman: A Priest Explains the Hard Truth About Why the Church Is In Decline
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By Fr. Bill Peckman, ChurchPop, May 8, 2017
Fr. Bill Peckman is the pastor of Ss. Peter and Paul Parish in Boonville, MO and St. Joseph Parish in Fayette, MO.
I spend a lot of time thinking, reading, and praying about why the Church is decline in this country.
The influx of immigrants from Latin America hides the number decline. Even with this influx, every measurable indicator is down: baptisms, confirmations, marriages, priestly ordinations, numbers of men’s and women’s religious, children in parochial schools and religion programs. It is grim.
How did we get here?
The major error was ditching the transcendent. We domesticated God. We became functional Arians. (This doesn’t mean racist, that would be Aryans.) It means we act as if Jesus was merely human, that He is a guru, self-help teacher, social worker extraordinaire.
To be sure, I am not talking about every parish. But as a Church in this country, we took our eyes off the ball.
Mass started looking less like the worship of God and more like a pep rally. Our churches stopped looking Catholic and were overrun by iconoclasts. We went from churches that exuded Catholic belief visually, to ubiquitous ‘sacred spaces’ that looked more like theaters. ….
Read more at https://churchpop.com/2017/05/08/a-priest-explains-the-hard-truth-about-why-the-church-is-in-decline/
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