{"id":14486,"date":"2018-06-12T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omnesmag.com\/?p=14486"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:55:17","slug":"the-parishes-are-restructured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/firmas\/las-parroquias-se-reestructuran\/","title":{"rendered":"Parishes are restructured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Catholic parishes in the United States have played a powerful role in maintaining the presence of the Church in a majority Protestant country. The parish was a haven for Catholic immigrants, a place of volunteerism and a source of Catholic identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more than a century, the largest number of Catholic parishes were logically located where the Catholics were: in the Northeast (New York, Boston, Philadelphia) and in the Midwest (Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, however, the Catholic parish is undergoing a radical change. A new work by five Catholic researchers, entitled <em>21st Century Catholic Parishes,<\/em> explains this change. One of the biggest developments is its geographic location, with more and more Catholics moving south (Raleigh, Miami, Atlanta, Houston) and west (Denver, Los Angeles).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, the Catholic population is now almost evenly divided between the Northeast, Midwest, South and West of the country, due, on the one hand, to the migration of people within the territory, seeking employment or a lower cost of living; and, on the other hand, to immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The challenge, the authors point out, is that <em>\"people move, but parishes and schools don't.\"<\/em> The northeast and midwest are left with shrinking parishes. <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arquidi%C3%B3cesis_de_Nueva_York\">Archdiocese of New York<\/a> recently underwent a massive reorganization, and 20 percent of its parishes were closed or merged. At the same time Houston and Atlanta are noticing the need for more parishes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, about four out of ten Catholics are Hispanic. And there are more and more parishes that have Hispanic ministers and Mass in Spanish.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Catholic parish in the United States is clearly going through a historic transition, but there are many signs that this transition will lead to its revitalization w.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La parroquias cat\u00f3licas en los Estados Unidos ha desempe\u00f1ado un papel poderoso en el mantenimiento de la presencia de la Iglesia en un pa\u00eds de mayor\u00eda protestante. La parroquia era un refugio para los inmigrantes cat\u00f3licos, un lugar de voluntariado y fuente de identidad cat\u00f3lica. Durante m\u00e1s de un siglo, el mayor n\u00famero de parroquias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-14486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-firmas","tag-parroquias"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Las parroquias se reestructuran<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Las parroquias cat\u00f3licas en EE.\u202fUU. cambian de mapa: decrecen en el norte, crecen en el sur y oeste, y se revitalizan con presencia hispana.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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