We need to talk about closing parishes.

Jesuitical

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In many parishes across the United States, churches are closing, there’s a shortage of priests and many younger Catholics are leaving the faith. That has forced some dioceses to "cluster" parishes, a process that asks communities to tighten budgets, share resources and, in many cases, share priests. One such parish cluster sits in the small city of Antigo, Wis., where the local pastor, the Rev. Joel Sember, is about to incorporate a fourth church into his three-parish cluster. Today, Ashley and Zac welcome Jim McDermott, S.J., and Sebastian Gomes to discuss Part Two of America Media’s new, groundbreaking documentary, “People of God: How Catholic Parish Life is Changing in the United States.” Is parish clustering a longterm solution or a bandaid fix to a much deeper crisis in the U.S. church? Watch “People of God: How Catholic Parish Life is Changing in the United States” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.0	Hello and welcome to Jesuitical, a podcast by the Young Hip and Lay Editors of America media.
0:17.0	That lay part means we aren't Jesuits, but we work with them.
0:20.2	Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture in the news, often over drinks.
0:24.9	And welcome again to another special bonus episode of the podcast.
0:29.0	We are again talking about parishes this week.
0:31.8	That's the place where we go to mass on Sundays, where we get
0:34.0	baptized, married and buried, and where we go to CCD, Bible study, and the Friday night fish fry.
0:38.8	America recently released a new groundbreaking documentary, you've probably heard us talk about it,
0:43.4	it's called People of God,
0:44.5	How Catholic Parish Life is Changing
0:46.2	in the United States, which you can watch now
0:48.5	at America magazine.
0:49.4	org, slash People of God.
0:51.4	And the film raised a lot of questions and issues
0:54.6	that are just super fun and interesting to talk about
0:57.3	and unpack a little bit.
0:58.4	And so we're gonna do that today
1:00.1	with our colleagues, Father Jim McDermott,
1:02.3	and the narrator and director of the film
1:04.8	Sebastian Gomes and I should say Ashley McKinless is also here.
1:08.9	My usual request. So welcome back to the podcast everybody. It's a joy to be with you again.
1:15.8	Thanks that you too. So I'll bring us into our topic today which is
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