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MineralMan

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9. That's already happening.

Fri Jun 7, 2019, 03:59 PM

Jun 2019

So far, they're just closing parish churches and consolidating. Schools, too. Church attendance and donations are down everywhere. But, they're not changing. Just retrenching.

Fewer people are becoming priests and nuns, too. So they just shut down seminaries and convents. Or they import priests from other countries.

They're not changing, just contracting and getting smaller.

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