Most of the local headlines concerning the Catholic Church relate to bankruptcy proceedings and whatever else de facto Archbishop Jeff Anderson deems appropriate. Most of the national and world headlines surround the reports of the various utterings of Pope Francis; this reporting varies in accuracy and rarely provides full context.
For us, the news is that we've changed parishes. We've left the gigantic parish in our town to join a smaller parish in a neighboring community. We had a variety of reasons for making the change, most of which are idiosyncratic, but the primary reason is that we felt that the gigantic parish wasn't paying attention to details in their faith formation classes.
There's a lesson in that; although we encounter God as individuals, we pray together in community. Our communities are often a matter of geography, but we have greater freedom in choosing now than we did in the past. We had a 2.4 mile drive to our old parish; the new one is 5.5 miles away. We initially chose the gigantic parish because it had ample resources, especially compared with the struggling inner-city parish we'd reluctantly left when the kids were little. I wrote about our old parish extensively a few years back, but this change is different.
More to come.
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