Thankyou Brenden for your courage, frankness and humility in answering these challenging questions. It can be far easier these days to share the ‘secular story’ and/or close down anyone who doesn’t share this story. Of course, there are many complex reasons for this. You have given me much to ponder on. Praying for you and all at WOF 🙏🏼
Fine to say that we shouldn’t church hopping but kids grow up fast. When we were raising teens, we did exactly that. And they’re still Catholics, one a happy priest.
I missed the question that preoccupies me for decades: how come that people in the West in no time lost their interest in a religion which dominated the lives of their forebears for 20 ages? Can religion not survive in a society with good education and general welfare? Is science really the churchyard of religion? And most intriguing of all questions: have humans in the West finally accepted their finality and are they no longer interested in a life hereafter?
Liturgical abuse in your parish reason to move: 99% of parishes around the world do not follow Sacrosanctum Concilium and subsequent liturgical documents-i.e. Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, music guidelines, etc.
Thankyou Brenden for your courage, frankness and humility in answering these challenging questions. It can be far easier these days to share the ‘secular story’ and/or close down anyone who doesn’t share this story. Of course, there are many complex reasons for this. You have given me much to ponder on. Praying for you and all at WOF 🙏🏼
Fine to say that we shouldn’t church hopping but kids grow up fast. When we were raising teens, we did exactly that. And they’re still Catholics, one a happy priest.
I missed the question that preoccupies me for decades: how come that people in the West in no time lost their interest in a religion which dominated the lives of their forebears for 20 ages? Can religion not survive in a society with good education and general welfare? Is science really the churchyard of religion? And most intriguing of all questions: have humans in the West finally accepted their finality and are they no longer interested in a life hereafter?
Liturgical abuse in your parish reason to move: 99% of parishes around the world do not follow Sacrosanctum Concilium and subsequent liturgical documents-i.e. Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, music guidelines, etc.