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More than 3000 leave consecrated life each year

admin — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:03:01 +0000

More than 3000 men and women religious leave the consecrated life each year, according to the secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Archbishop José Rodríguez Carballo said that the majority of cases occur at a "relatively young age".

The causes, he said, include "absence of spiritual life", "loss of a sense of community", and a "loss of sense of belonging to the Church" — a loss manifest in dissent from Catholic teaching on "women priests and sexual morality".

More than 3000 leave consecrated life each year

Desperate choice faces Christians in Syria

admin — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:01:36 +0000

Life has become so dangerous for Christians in Syria that they face the choice of trying to leave — in itself a difficult course of action — or being killed.

That's the view of the Maronite archbishop of Damascus, Archbishop Samir Nassar, who says defenceless civilians, both Christians and Muslims, are being killed each day by bombs, car bombs, snipers and lack of medical care.

The local Church has become a "wall of tears", to which all are turning "for protection and help in finding a visa to leave".

Desperate choice faces Christians in Syria