The Church's Future Is Now
January 23, 2009NCR has published an editorial recognizing the challenges facing dioceses in the United States and the national conversation hosted by the Emerging Models Project to look at these challenges.
View this ArticleNCR Editor-at-Large, Tom Roberts, writes, "For a long time in America, the local parish was the public sacrament, the declaration not only of who we are but that we are. In stone and steeples, stained-glass windows and statuary, accented in Irish or Italian, Polish or German, our immigrant ancestors said as prominently as possible: Here we are, this is who we are.
That's why parish closings for so many are so difficult to bear, and why the future at times is so difficult to imagine."
