Here are a few comments on a recent letter to the editor lamenting the pain that Catholic parishes are now enduring. The person who emailed us the link to these comments said this:
Please check out Charlie 164's post. He is saying that even parish core teams are realizing that the bishop's reconfiguration plan will financially hurt the parishes and Catholic schools. Remember, core team members had to take an assessment to prove that they were open minded about the bishop's plans before they could be designated core team members.
Geraldine:
just wait til the churches come down and the wawas go up
8/10/2009 9:47:13 AM
Charlie164:
Please check out Charlie 164's post. He is saying that even parish core teams are realizing that the bishop's reconfiguration plan will financially hurt the parishes and Catholic schools. Remember, core team members had to take an assessment to prove that they were open minded about the bishop's plans before they could be designated core team members.
Geraldine:
just wait til the churches come down and the wawas go up
8/10/2009 9:47:13 AM
Charlie164:
Rita
you are correct about one thing and that is that no one at the diocese
really cares about anyone or anything except their ill conceived plan.
They don't care a single darn about parishioners or even their own
pastors. They have put pastors in an almost untenable situation and are
totally ignoring any core team members who are pointing out problems
with the decisioin. Through their publicity man Walton they will paint
a different picture but believe me, most of what he publishes is far
from the truth. The real tragedy is that the plan is, in many cases,
not going to work financially. They have not solved the basic problem
of funding for schools and the parishes will continue to have financial
difficulty because of that. Then, how will they afford all the new
positions to create "vibrancy"? Then where will we be? A colossal
upheaval for a failed plan. Unbelievable.
8/10/2009 4:52:00 PM
KH216:
Rita,
My heart and thoughts go out to you and your neighbors because you have recently lost your beloved church, St. John Neumann Church. There was no valid reason to close it because even using the Bishop's own population study, the Catholic population in southern Camden County and Gloucester County is growing, not declining. I also don't think the Bishop and his associates are precisely explaining anything about these mergers and the faithful are not at all happy with it. Also, there is a solution to the priest solution here. I have heard that three different orders of priests offered their services for the Diocese of Camden, but Bishop Galante turned them down.
8/12/2009 3:48:12 PM
8/10/2009 4:52:00 PM
KH216:
Rita,
My heart and thoughts go out to you and your neighbors because you have recently lost your beloved church, St. John Neumann Church. There was no valid reason to close it because even using the Bishop's own population study, the Catholic population in southern Camden County and Gloucester County is growing, not declining. I also don't think the Bishop and his associates are precisely explaining anything about these mergers and the faithful are not at all happy with it. Also, there is a solution to the priest solution here. I have heard that three different orders of priests offered their services for the Diocese of Camden, but Bishop Galante turned them down.
8/12/2009 3:48:12 PM