Why No One Comes to Church on Sunday
Great blog from Fr. Dwight Longnecker yesterday who completely understands the issues we are facing (in the West at least): "No wonder people have stopped going to church because if your religion is no more than Moralistic Therapeutic Deism why bother dragging yourself off to a dreary building early on a Sunday morning to sing awful hymns with awful people and listen to some guy or gal read from a 2000 year old book and then drone on about being a nicer person peace and justice all are welcome gather them in and songs about eagles. You get my point. People are dropping out of church because it simply doesn’t make sense." According to Anglican Blogger Archbishop Cranmer, (and the 2015 British Election Study) there is no decline in the Catholic Church in this country, numbers are steady due to immigration, whereas Anglicanism will soon be obsolete unless there are some rapid changes. See here . What I don't understand is why the majority of the Catholic hierarchy, and ...