A radical shake-up of the Catholic church in Wairarapa could see fewer church buildings, fewer priests, and a shift in the traditional HQ from Masterton. In a letter to parishes in February, the Archbishop of Wellington Cardinal John Dew directed them to review their churches and presbyteries in response to a “critical situation” with the Read more
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Cardinal says “no” parish clustering
Thursday, March 30th, 2017
Priest crisis solved – lay people will be leading parishes in Germany, says Cardinal Reinhard Marx. The German cardinal’s motivation is his firm rejection of clustering parishes to resolve Germany’s shortage of priests. The shortfall of priests in Marx’s archdiocese of Munich and Freising is clear. He says of its 1.7 million Catholics, there was Read more