rica's Monday Afternoon Stats, Hope, and Old Questions:
The Archbishop of New Orleans is doing what the Archbishop of Cincinnati will not. That is, he's looking at parishes on an individual basis and making adjustments ONLY when or where necessary. IT CAN BE DONE! So why isn't it being done here?? I can't make sense of it.
Only 13 of the 107 parishes are experiencing modification in NOLA, compared to 196 of the 208 in AoC.
***That's 12% vs. 94%!*** (94%!!!!)
Can you imagine the decrease in trauma that would take place up here if AoC had taken the time to examine the need for parishes at an individual level? This could still be the course taken, but we're met with a hard line when we ask.
Instead, we're swept into a giant plan and are called "fearful," "divisive," or "underminers of priestly authority," if we pipe up about what Holy Mother Church, in Her humility, allows us to do to questions such an objectification. (i.e. The mandates and appeals process that we're all hearing so much about.)
In a nutshell, that's our beef: Our parishes are looked at as cogs in the machine and will be extincted carte blanche with no accommodation to our situations. (Don't be placated by the recent mentions of 'amendments' and 'accommodations' written in to the Decrees. It only takes a pdf document and one signature to undo any of that, if it can even be done in the first place.)
Most patriotic Americans take issue with that on a civic level.... why is it so problematic to take issue with that on a religious institution level?
https://youtu.be/pynOzt2myj8?si=MvHBQSICykThbw0D
-A special thanks to a friend with the inside scoop, JRH of New Orleans Archdiocese.Erica Schmiesing: Comparing Cincinnati with NOLA