The Decline of the Catholic Church in America.

Perhaps no other organized crime syndicate on earth is more skillful at euphemism that the Catholic Church.

The Church has a problem: It (along with many other traditional syndicates), is failing to persuade people to hand over their hard earned cash. They have failed to keep up with the momentum of modern society and their tired, worn out message just isn't having any impact on the younger generation. Those who do still adhere are having to hang onto the few scraps of the storybook catechism that can still be spun into fools gold.

Witness ye, the gigantic mental back flips that the Church performs when trying to address the problem of having to close up shop and retreat into smaller cells while trying to compete in the today's changing landscape in the game of fleecing an ever shrinking population of churchgoers. Today, it is far more popular to jettison traditional brick and mortar religion and instead call ones-self "Spiritual". If anything, it's a lot cheaper. 

All over the country, Catholic parishes have seen a decline in attendance and support from parishioners. The actual numbers are difficult to extract, since the church claims they are growing all the time. Growing in what respect may be the issue here.

The way the scam works is this:

Each Parish campus has an indoctrination hall (church building), living quarters for the perpetrators (rectory and/or convent) and a brainwashing center for children (parochial school). There is one campus established in every neighborhood in the city that operates TAX FREE so that everyone in the community is shouldering the property tax burden of these costly facilities whether they are being directly victimized by them or not.

The parish is in the business of exploiting families. It is important to encourage members to take on high amounts of responsibility and the burden of offspring so that the Church can exercise maximum influence on the family unit for profit. 


Once they have lured a fertile, married couple onto the membership rolls, they are then psychologically assaulted into attending indoctrination sessions on a weekly basis and paying 10% of their income to do so. They are also pressured into having as many offspring as possible and sending them to the brain washing center.


The "school" is expensive (see my other post about parochial schools) but if the family is an "active and contributing" member of the parish, they get a discount on brain washing for the kids. Often, the victims are members by default since they were raised in this environment and are unaware of what life would be like without a giant tick sucking at their neck.  

When there aren't enough marks available in the community to make a profit to run the parish, the operation has to be closed or share services with the one next door.

So many parishes have failed to profit in today's market,  that the Vatican has ordered severe cut backs to their operations in the US since it is no longer a "growth" market. Last year,the  local archdiocese sent a notice to all the parishes in the twin cities outlining the steps that will be taken to streamline the operation and stop the hemorrhaging of the holy coffers. 

Last fall, they issued a 31 page report complete with euphemisms, redundancy and cryptic verbage, that attempted to outline the fate of all the parishes in the Tri-county area. However, I have pared it down to one page that lists the Twin Cities area parishes and removed the confusing descriptions and misleading commentary.

Minneapolis:

Churches having to share recources: (Vatican euphemism: Cluster)

All Saints share with St. Boniface.

Holy Name share with St. Leonard Port Maurice.

St. Boniface share with All Saints.

St. Leonard of Port Maurice share with Holy Name.

Churches being closed. (Vatican eupemism: Merge)

St. Austin (consolidated with St. Bridget)

Visitation (consolidated with Annunciation)

Holy Cross, St. Clement & St. Hedwig (consolidated with St. Anthony of Padua)

 Surviving churches. (Vatican Euphemism: No Structural Change)

Ascension,  Basilica of Saint Mary,  Christ the King,  Holy Rosary, Incarnation, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Our Lady of Peace, Our Lady of Victory, St. Albert the Great, St. Anne/St. Joseph Hien,

St. Cyril and Methodius, St. Frances Cabrini, St. Helena, St. Joan of Arc, St. Lawrence, St. Olaf, St. Philip, St. Stephen,

St. Thomas the Apostle, Comunidad Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, - TBD, The Church of Gichitwaa Kateri – TBD.

Saint Paul:

Churches having to share resources.

Holy Childhood share with St. Adalbert, St. Columba, Holy Childhood and Maternity of the Blessed Virgin.

St. Casimir share with St. Patrick.

St. James share with St. Stanislaus.

St. Michael share with St. Mathew and Our Lady of Guadalupe.

St. Pascal Baylon, Saint Paul – share with Blessed Sacrament.

Churches being closed. (Vatican euphemism: Merge)

St. Andrew church and school (consolidating with Maternity of the Blessed Virgin.)

St. Francis de Sales  church and school (consolidating with St. James -renamed St. Francis de Sales/St James).

St. John church and school (consolidating with St. Pascal Baylon).

St. Thomas the Apostle church and school (consolidating with Blessed Sacrament)

St. Vincent de Paul (consolidating with Cathedral of Saint Paul.)

Surviving churches.

Assumption, Holy Spirit, Nativity of Our Lord, Sacred Heart, Lumen Christi Catholic Community

St. Agnes, St. Andrew Kim, St. Bernard, St. Cecilia, St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Community, Ramsey - TBD

St. Louis King of France, St. Mark, St. Mary, Peter Claver, St. Thomas More.

In all, 21 church operations will be closed, but this condensed list shows 8 in Minneapolis and St. Paul marked for closure.

The Archdiocese claims this is not about money or buildings, but about "investing in the future".  That's par for the course for the church - deny the obvious and replace it with something obtuse and meaningless. They are masters at distraction.

One would hope that these buildings, once no longer in use  for the purposes of superstitious ritual, will be subject to Taxation as they all should be.