Monday, June 30, 2008
Churches and Sprawl
Eduardo raises some interesting questions in his post, "Churches and Sprawl." Among other things, he asks:
Would it make sense for the Church to impose a moratorium on opening new suburban parishes in an effort to avoid encouraging Catholics to move out to places where they are guaranteed to spend a lot of time driving?
As Eduardo himself notes, I suspect that, in the Catholic case, parishes are following people. And, once Catholics are in the suburbs, it would be kind of, well, un-Catholic to tell them that they have to drive to "their" parishes for the sacraments. Still, I'm a partisan for cities, and think the Church *does* have a role to play here. It will not likely surprise any MOJ readers to learn that, in my view, the Church could help reduce sprawl by investing in urban Catholic schools.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2008/06/churches-and--1.html