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https://apnews.com/article/catholic-church-shift-orthodoxy-tradition-7638fa2013a593f8cb07483ffc8ed487A step back in time': Americas Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways
By TIM SULLIVAN
Updated 11:07 PM CDT, April 30, 2024
MADISON, Wis. (AP) It was the music that changed first. Or maybe thats just when many people at the pale brick Catholic church in the quiet Wisconsin neighborhood finally began to realize what was happening.
The choir director, a fixture at St. Maria Goretti for nearly 40 years, was suddenly gone. Contemporary hymns were replaced by music rooted in medieval Europe.
So much was changing. Sermons were focusing more on sin and confession. Priests were rarely seen without cassocks. Altar girls, for a time, were banned.
At the parish elementary school, students began hearing about abortion and hell.
It was like a step back in time, said one former parishioner, still so dazed by the tumultuous changes that began in 2021 with a new pastor that he only spoke on condition of anonymity.
Its not just St. Maria Goretti.
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Shit, bring back pedophilia and the chastity belt. And get rid of that woke pope guy
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dalton99a
May 2024
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I can only speak for here in Ireland but quite a lot of the moderates left, leaving the conservative/hard right
OnDoutside
May 2024
#3
I don't worry about the older group too much, it's the young ones that you need to be concerned with. The ones
OnDoutside
May 2024
#9
I'm just spit-balling here, but I think many who appreciated the progress were leaving anyway.
Gore1FL
May 2024
#4
I alerted hours ago. They haven't responded, so I guess they're letting the post be. Not up to me.
shrike3
May 2024
#28
It's ironic that such a patriarchal, women-hating, male supremacist institution
Sky Jewels
May 2024
#19
I like this mom: "I don't want my daughter to be Catholic," said Christine Hammond, "Not if this is the Roman Catholic
BlueWaveNeverEnd
May 2024
#24
Often, at least a couple families will arrive with four, five or even more children, signaling their adherence to the ch
BlueWaveNeverEnd
May 2024
#25