"CATHOLIC leaders are bracing themselves to close half their parishes across the west of Scotland as priest numbers plummet.
The Archdiocese of Glasgow, by far the country's biggest, has long warned that it will have to make difficult decisions on church numbers as it finds it harder to fill pulpits than pews.
Now new figures show the archdiocese expects to have just 45 priests within two decades, enough for fewer than half its current parishes.
With dozens of priests close to retirement and just two seminarians currently training to replace them, Glasgow Archbishop Philip Tartaglia late last year launched a consultation on parish mergers, promising there would be no "hit list".
However, detailed options being discussed in each of the archdiocese's nine deaneries, or cluster of parishes, suggest dramatic change is on the way."
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/catholic-leaders-plan-to-axe-half-of-heartland-parishes.23668158
The Archdiocese of Glasgow, by far the country's biggest, has long warned that it will have to make difficult decisions on church numbers as it finds it harder to fill pulpits than pews.
Now new figures show the archdiocese expects to have just 45 priests within two decades, enough for fewer than half its current parishes.
With dozens of priests close to retirement and just two seminarians currently training to replace them, Glasgow Archbishop Philip Tartaglia late last year launched a consultation on parish mergers, promising there would be no "hit list".
However, detailed options being discussed in each of the archdiocese's nine deaneries, or cluster of parishes, suggest dramatic change is on the way."
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/catholic-leaders-plan-to-axe-half-of-heartland-parishes.23668158
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Vanhimmat
eli papeuskaan ei enää kiinnosta peräkylissä. :D
"With dozens of priests close to retirement and just two seminarians currently training to replace them"
Suomessakin kirkon pitäisi itse kouluttaa ja maksaa omien poppamiestensä koulutus.
Kirkon pitäisi maksaa pappiskoulutuksesta erikseen tai se pitäisi vähentää heille maksetusta korvauksesta.
Miksi pappin virkaan pitää ylipäätään kouluttaa ja yliopistossa vuosikausia? Eikö papille riitä luku-, kirjoitus- ja laskutaito. Johtajuuskursseja eikä sen puoleen muitakaan ylimääräisiä kursseja tarvita, koska rukoilemalla saa vastauksen kaikkiin kysymyksiin. Ja eiköhän muita työntekijöitä osaa jokainen työpaikkakiusata ilman kursseja.
Laitetaan sekin raha vaikka lääkärikoulutukseen niin on enemmän jokapäiväistä hyötyä.
"dramatic change is on the way."
Kohta jytisee kautta Euroopan ja oikein kunnolla.