Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, formally accepted a major reorganization plan on Thursday that would group the archdiocese’s 288 parishes into about 135 clusters and assign each a team of priests, staff, and lay leaders.
O’Malley said the church in Boston and nationwide had reached a crossroads after years of declining Mass attendance and diminished participation in parish life. The impetus for the new plan is “a new evangelization,” he said, reaching out to inactive Catholics and bringing them back to church.
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OK, I believe in efficent reorganization, but I also believe that the Church should reorganize its teachings. Perhaps you may want to read my book "Heresies for All Good Catholics, Protestants and Jews." Then, again, I would imagine that having read the title, you wouldn't. For millenia the Church has taught wondrous things, mysteries that are above man's reason, the Church says, and should be accepted on faith, not through the rational mind that God gave us. Here's just one: the proclamation that God's grace comes though Communion, the swallowing of a wafer, whose substance, not its accidental appearance, is not really unleavened bread but the actual mystical body and blood of Jesus Christ. I believe in Commuion but swallowing a wafer of allegedly and unprovable transformed bread is not communion. Communion with the Holy Spirit takes place in silence, the teachings of dozens of the many mystics of the Church like St. Theresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross and many more. The Church has always put their teachings on the back burner of doctrine. I could go on but the courtesies of brevity bring me to a merciful halt.
OK, I believe in efficent reorganization, but I also believe that the Church should reorganize its teachings. Perhaps you may want to read my book "Heresies for All Good Catholics, Protestants and Jews." Then, again, I would imagine that having read the title, you wouldn't. For millenia the Church has taught wondrous things, mysteries that are above man's reason, the Church says, and should be accepted on faith, not through the rational mind that God gave us. Here's just one: the proclamation that God's grace comes though Communion, the swallowing of a wafer, whose substance, not its accidental appearance, is not really unleavened bread but the actual mystical body and blood of Jesus Christ. I believe in Commuion but swallowing a wafer of allegedly and unprovable transformed bread is not communion. Communion with the Holy Spirit takes place in silence, the teachings of dozens of the many mystics of the Church like St. Theresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross and many more. The Church has always put their teachings on the back burner of doctrine. I could go on but the courtesies of brevity bring me to a merciful halt.
OK, I believe in efficent reorganization, but I also believe that the Church should reorganize its teachings. Perhaps you may want to read my book "Heresies for All Good Catholics, Protestants and Jews." Then, again, I would imagine that having read the title, you wouldn't. For millenia the Church has taught wondrous things, mysteries that are above man's reason, the Church says, and should be accepted on faith, not through the rational mind that God gave us. Here's just one: the proclamation that God's grace comes though Communion, the swallowing of a wafer, whose substance, not its accidental appearance, is not really unleavened bread but the actual mystical body and blood of Jesus Christ. I believe in Commuion but swallowing a wafer of allegedly and unprovable transformed bread is not communion. Communion with the Holy Spirit takes place in silence, the teachings of dozens of the many mystics of the Church like St. Theresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross and many more. The Church has always put their teachings on the back burner of doctrine. I could go on but the courtesies of brevity bring me to a merciful halt.
Warning: without its own finance council, a parish does not exist. Canon Law, Canon 537. Like the first "Reconfiguration" plan of 2004, this is an institution-centered plan, not an outreach to Catholics, inactive or active, in their faith. Less employees, less opportunity to serve on parish pastoral councils, "finance councils", more centralization. This plan does not respect the value of lay people supporting their own local parishes through works and contributions. The bottom line is that parishes will close and be sold off, though slower than the last time to attempt to avoid collective action by smaller parishes placed in the "collaborative".
last sentence should read "attempt to avoid collective opposition" by smaller parishes place in the collaborative. See outstanding vigils and canon law appeals from 2004's "Reconfiguration", 8 years later.
So which cluster gets the pedophiles?